James McLain Poems

Mark Joiner was roused from his cell earlier than usual on June 24,2012.
He was handed a bottle of Clorox and was told it was clean-up time.

Joiner was used to cleaning up cells in Dade Correctional Institution’s psychiatric ward, and many of them were frequently brimming with feces and urine, insect-infested food and other filth.
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You say your from here but your not.
It sure isn't love that is killing U.S.
sadly this you all know.
They must go-go they must but
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Wading through foam to the sea
I pass between rocks that aren't seen.
An easier course with out thought
to discourse,
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The leaves in the fall do not fall-falling there.
Memory's people loose can't be found.
To many have gone here even fewer will stay.
Trees with deep roots won't grow in the dark.
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Growing up in Tampa,
I chased and caught every thing
that moved.
Selling rattle snakes to the ice cream man
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Without a tether lost in space and why
it is they can't see me.
Each sentence I write runs on and on
I've been afraid of the dark since
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I see her face behind thè green bush
her teeth are white she is smiling.
Humid it's hot I am sweating.
These are the trees here
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As soon as she is released from jail she will
have abandoned her position on God,
as the United States Constitution is very clear.
Church and State
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Wearing a bra that I didn't buy
she wears my boxers.
The panties I bought that she
latter found
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