Jerry Pike Poems

Levi Tags And Fringes

Chill upon the hillside, where the fair was built
Crombies for the evening, buttoned to the hilt
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Turn Left You Idiot!

Turn left you idiot!
And being a man, I obey,
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I’ve Not Seen You At All

I’ve never seen you nowhere, I’ve not seen you at all,
I’ve dreamt where dreams grow hazy, and spiders climb the wall,
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And I Won’t Cry

So what do you want to know?
I don’t know where I’m going,
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That Man Above

With due reverence they glided the pavement
black from top to toes, a drapers excess of curtain folds,
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Rush Goalie

We played, feet off ground, to decide captains,
one potato two, for first pick,
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Routes

You tied the knot in sixty-one,
with strings that touched my heart,
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Bandstand

I saw you there, among invisible notes,
by a melancholy bandstand,
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Tunes!

Jerry...Roy, new tunes here, if you wanna…
And there I was, at 7.15 scootering for dub.
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She stands there, her own corner,
gesticulating to all and sundry,
screwing her face up,
tongues, occasional smiles,
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