Pub.....lished by Ted Sheridan

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I was up all hours last night

insomniac that am

worried about money

politics and war

Deadlines and bodies

of editors and critics

danced through my brain

Rejection notices

declared bankruptcy

before I could mail the bills

Mother in laws

warned their daughters

about me

and my numerous infidelities

no matter how many times

I divorced them of thought

Old soldiers

marched into my dreams

parading their bloody colors

as I dozed off into my eternal sleep

shouting 'Kill the bums'

while firing shots

of Irish whiskey

round after round

over my still born

drunken head

Here all this time

I'd been thinking

they were already dead.....

There is only one thing in this world

prohibiting me from going insane

and it's this picture of my beautiful muse

who keeps rewriting

the last few chapters of my life

as if it really matters to her

how and when I call it quits

and finally write 'The End'___

©in the year 2007AD by T.Sheridan

Ted Sheridan

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Tara Sloblock (9/4/2007 10:16:00 PM)
The last bit of this is absolutely beautiful. The rest is just, typically, brilliant. (And it's quarter past four in the morning here and I know just what you mean) . t x

David Taylor (2/5/2007 9:10:00 AM)
Really does capture the flavour of those restless nights when things just dont want to settle down and create anxiety for the future, thanks Ted.

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