James McLain Poems

Upon a state, elsewhere my mind was
untoward you not,
is it a one eyed jack? ..wearing in you,
this marsh cool evincing stay, ..I can but
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No one was around
this was planned since morning recess
stripping they taste the cool water
while joined at the hip
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The two legged bait, was young..rash..
already wounded..leaking..and blind.
The lion, was very long, yellow of tooth.
Last approach was not very stealthy.
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With a scrape and bow, or curtsey
southerners have claim..
either or she familial him familiar,
in such a way, to avoid a lie detector...
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The ride started at the very beginning.
I ride waiting, I don't watch.I am to tired.
I clean up the worst of your messes.
What else can such pitiful creatures, do
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On hands and knees, i stare through glass
so glazed of memories, inside.
It lays there, coiled safe inside pouched, leathers
scrotum, waiting to bark.
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i am desperate, who do i turn to.She cares but is
powerless to help me.
Hipless key still fits, is this lock, so stiff, it carries all
over running oils.What was saved from whom, for what?
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This is a bad day for me, for you I am happy.
My head has not hurt this much in a long,
long time.
I am nearly blind from the pain.
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Is it because,
after forcing me to make unnatural choices
I choose insanity just for a while
but long enough for you to spend a quarter of a million
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