James McLain Poems

It is the mother;
who uses her son or the daughter
because the feeling necessity
where the mother of abuse
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You're issues those were you
as a child, and you try and
try, and you bring it up, being
soft and or hard..each vine
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The Dark Alley;
Is long and lightly lit
but dark and right out
the back window.
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Death looks at a flower and you screaming,
I am beautiful, look, look..
look here I am, come and eat me, alive.
Death hovers, smiling, never waiting, walking always
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'Boys' and 'Girls'
One grows moss.
And one a beard.
Both keeping pace.
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A bird and one little, bee.


And you are scolded black..
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Words are tricky.
Sometimes sticky.
Diplomacy a must, of trust.
It is why.
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Deeply so much very deeply.
Color of my sun, comes more quickly.
Salted palms,
sweating blood is my thickness,
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Here
a dream
you hold me
here
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On journeys back looking up counting stars.
If close is to close,
and the rocky out crops is close to the root of the tree.
Stay only close very close to the edge.
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