Joshua Cawthorne Poems

Mimic
He said and I said…
“I wasn’t going to mention him no more…”
I knew I was lying.
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Lives and hungers for attention. Don’t listen to it.
Lives under intense pressure and is durable…but is not your friend.
Loves and hungers for the lesson minus the experience to make it reality.
It lives like this…because living is its life.
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Confused about this inner thought
Distraught not really
At first sitting with my feet up
Then lounging with my feet down
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Works hard with no qualms to put calices on the palms.
He’s a bread maker.
Some call them winners either way he always cooked dinner from this green funny paper.
He bathed us, carried us, nursed us, and beat our butts - well plucked us because we were
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I said (© 2010)

I said to memories past…I was weak
She believed me
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I’ve seen it before…
I’ve heard it before…
Read some before…
Wasn’t sure why people wrote
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