John W. McEwers Poems

Look
See us there in the courtyard?
My arms 'round your belly
and you with a smile and corsage
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Keg man brings me what my pain cries for
what I thrive on die for work my job for
deliver boxes in a warehouse for on a forklift
for
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They're not black.
But no longer white
some middle color of nothingness
too bright to deny light
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Too many times I've guided frogs home from bars
where the women chill their beers in soft mugs made from mud
and peat moss clings to the barman's shoulders when the
cackle band sings candy and soda over the drunk crowd
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I bumped into you while walking at the mall
You were carrying a Victoria's Secret bag
And a FootLocker bag
And I should have known that that meant there was someone
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It isn't easy to save a grown man from a burning building
but that's just whet you did when you found me
crying out the window
shouting, 'Help! '
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The letters fall like bolts of thunder
lightning strikes the board and
riot ensues, vexation varied and vain
he uses lots of v's
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Trails gone
and the tracker
the old man in the corner of the bar
stops sniffing to take a sip of beer
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To score, you need two things:
money is one
the other isn't important
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As I love you, the angels fall
from heaven, lights shine as a beacon,
flood lights on my soul
that say, 'You are not alone.'
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