James McLain Poems

Corruption can never sit idle
inappropriate behavior
to address certain questions very specific
and inquiry's through
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To mantain the age old threat to the stability of the social order
and when all the Young people
whom don't believe in your God are evil, immoral,
dropping a theistic religion you never had any faith in.
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Etched on his face
was that
look of surprise.
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'Dear'
and i have,
have i not, i have said,
i do not worry about betrayal from 'God, it is man,
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Looking down:
never upon that man,
his woman each star is bright.
Dawn spreads across.
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The left ankle kisses the right wrist
left wrist talks to the right ankle
prearranged unique upward angles
and hung up from the ceiling
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Mine is a garden of pine
below the tower
across the clear winding river
Isolated each is
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Because, 'I have a lactating daughter,
why not take advantage of her?
As long as Mother doesn't mind,
father said,
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I look out at you
over the open blue sky
growing dark
when the sun
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and SOON I WILL GO BACK TO THEY
OF WHOM
I TRIED TO BE A FRIEND AND ONE AS WITH
REDEMPTION FOR MY YOUTH AND IS.
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