Scott J. Shepard Poems

This wasn't the easiest of departures
The landing birds.
The refuge, some faraway not really heard of
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I wish you remembered how to love
Like mix tapes
And scribbled pencil lines
Romantic paints and devotion
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Please leave me alone,
This damn gnat's got alotta racket
Buzzing around my brain
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Growth isn't invisible
In this crazy world, crazy does what crazy wants
And they say I'm crazy for wanting
To be free
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The application of life
Just a series of stories
Written out like the histories of our days
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Heavy rain falls on the dashboard
They're tiny ink blots,
As if Rorschach's
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Hello! Out there in the muddled grey
the casted shadow
beneath the brush of Azaleas
and hidden below the flowery pines
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That noise? Yah, I've heard it before
They gave it a name
Then tucked it away in the depths of some distant mind
On a barstool at the Meson de la Flota in Havana
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he sat across the donut shop
bleeding the white out of everyone
he could see
the white rider in his white Harley
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If should we know, what now does it mean to know?
The mother's intuition when her child gently yearns,
something there within I may never rightly know.
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