jim hogg Poems

I must photograph your gums
I’m sure I heard him say,
with a hundred million pixels
of the latest insight into
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The drawbridge raised, the curfew sounds
and cops with tasers do the rounds.
Those nineteen sixties dreams of peace
so quickly turned to disbelief.
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Well I'm no tongue tied teenage kid
No mid life crisis on the brink
I can't say that I'm innocent
but neither am I cynical
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It begins like a spring begins.
and it flows, runs, cuts and weaves,
to never end until we do, and we surf,
we sail, we tumble and we babble,
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I

A dirty old wall ran north and south
across our little games, but
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I played my life between the notes
on the trail of a wayward tune
I sailed a course by burned out boats
and sought the dark side of the moon
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I heard you’d never married
From a stranger yesterday
Exactly forty years have passed
Since I last saw your face
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T'was in the country dancing class
When I first laid my eyes on you
Bewitchin' fair an' temptin' lass
I grew addicted tae the view
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Tomorrow's only minutes down the road
Across this land a storm's about to blow
In every corner of the globe
there's trouble coming through
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I imagine valleys and no pecking order enemies
A bow and arrow living where the deer go down with tears
No cities born excusing all the crime that's screwed from myth
No profit torn from innocence, advantage to the fierce
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