James McLain Poems

To live but not to die.
I see your suicides
Major depressive,
and the light of suicide.
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Let it be forgotten,
as that flame, it just goes out.
May it be forgotten,
as to where my soul,
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As the door slammed shut;
All I could think was,
I had your ears checked dozens of times.
You could read, your eye sight was fine.
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Your crazy, now I think i'm not.
Do not make me think it is poetics
suicide like all my others went before.
it is always on your mind, and i'm,
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After You Have Run Away;
and after the money,
that you need has run like you so low.
How long can you live off those small,
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Each night was long, I never had enough
Each hill you pushed me up led down to you;
Each day the yellow sun came up again
Each cloud I touch, you turn I kiss each eye.
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i am 'Sad'
though not ashamed.
once some one said,
i was full of myself.
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'God' if 'I' Were;
I would not leave the rest
waiting in worry.
We are beyond the point
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a Word a Haiti
We do not play on tombs
red roses, turned brown, now dark.
Since there is much heart in them
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'Love' thinking of the loves of the past,
All the loves which didn't bare too ripe fruition.
All my loves of yesterday,
I wonder where they are Au revoir, today,
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