Dan Walters Poems

I’m always getting love drunk
Off silly girls’
Intoxicating fumes
My stomach can’t handle you
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Piles of trash line the halls
Some six feet tall
And still overflowing
With more garbage piled on top.
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Somewhere half way around the world
Someone is just as awake as I am
When they should be sleeping
They are thinking “Damn,
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Over the embankment
And though the ditch
Up to the porch, into your house
I tracked in all my sewage
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It’s either you crept
Or risked getting into a car wreck
So I go outside and get wind whipped
Against my face, then the frost bit
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We all give birth to who we are
And maybe if you allow yourself
To open wide enough
We might become whole
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I

Everyone comes up
With reasons why they want to die
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Nathan and I in a room of parasites
Listening to C-Minor
And the Seven Sisters walk out into the room
Where hope had gone, it must have been great
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And the saints came marching in
And right on they went
Down the street
Towards the black tees
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Listen to Berry to learn how to jive
You need to have had a job
To learn how to stand in line
You need to be desperate for someone to save your life
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