Robin Bennett Poems

Pull yourself up a chair
let your thoughts fly free-
a sad tale
about a girl named me
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Sitting around the table gloriously rich
in fake money. Colorful notes in
citrus with a mini Churchill handing out
second chances and standing in for
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I still can't see what you'd want with me-
A common tarnished penny, tails side up
Worthless as a wool coat in mid August
A string of pharmaceuticals to keep me in order.
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Counting seventy-eight pale blue pills,
forty-three white ones-
Lined neatly in a row
along side of pea green bath;
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Sitting in the cafe, becoming fast
friends with a Columbian gentleman
named Juan Valdez, I wait in
a too short midnight blue number.
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Cradle me in your arms-
rock me gently to sleep
for I depend on you for all
you are my warmth-
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You found me alone-
on the sands of beige
in peridot waters
a white pearl-
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Just another day at a verbal war
cannons fire insults
no cover-
Oblivious in my
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Feeling the need
for unbridled freedom
I spent my lonely day
at the park-
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Turning me into a blushing married bride,
Never escaping the distance, to lay at your side.
High on smoke from my own pipe dream,
Whispering in silence, while dying to scream.
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