Jay Bradley Poems

Addicted to the same seat, the smack bursts my spleen,
The screaming keyboard on the floor wishes to bleed,
Red eyes stiff as a board, relent not but their greed,
The needle fixes the arm, bolt me high caffeine;
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You can't walk away from the greatest show on earth,
All you know is that you've been dead since birth,
Searching the world for what it's worth,
Only discovering settled turf,
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Little lady laced in the heavenly gown,
Caught outside the witching hour,
I see your face as a benevolent frown,
Lonely angel on hallow ground,
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How you flutter so high,
Unaware there flows a tide,
No secrets do you hide,
You are freedom for the sky;
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Lend me your bridal hand, the best your new ring can,
I meet you to greet you, so I'll feed you when glad,
House seeded and completed, never growing mad,
Your wish to understand, for answers ask your man;
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The city is jazz under neon lights,
The jazz is blues stoned,
And the city never forgets this,
Like the heart never forgets to pulse,
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And where'er your sun rises, might you find yourself there also,
Where there's paradise, then there's play,
Where there's summer, then there's day,
And where'er your sun rises, might you find yourself there also;
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It comes, it owns our fears
We hear it with closed ears
And speak it through the years
It comes, it owns ours fears
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Tip top down the spine
It's a meltdown
It's what the kids call chaos
Being dead or alive
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The words I heard, misunderstood
Were solid in winter, cold and bare
My skin crept, listening
My great or lesser mind listing
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