Steve Caine

Hospital Corners.

I write to Hospital corners,
With tears running from my eyes,
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I kissed her by the Blarney Stone.

I kissed her by the Blarney Stone, my lips were hers that day,
It was sometime in November, she took my words away,
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The Waiting Room

Inconsequential magazines full of cars and TV screens,
mobile phones and lifestyle choice,
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The Blue Rinse Brigade.

A Supermarket Sweepstake,
Or maybe Rugby Scrum,
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Purple Toes.

You were delivered, from the side view mirror
So I span the car around,
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Untouchable.


To be the envy of a Skylark,
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Casa de la Música Cuba.

Cuba Libre!
I shouted across the bar,
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The Chicago Beggar.

Desperate for cash.
Sweat dripping from my brow,
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Dead Birds

The Black and White of tabloid press hid him like a tent,
Milk and Bread the obstacles to someone two feet ten,
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Tarot Snow.

If I could see the past, In the Kaleidoscope that's you,
I'd turn it so the light went out, for night time thoughts of you.
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Alaska Blues.

There were Sixteen dogs pulling my sled,
As the sun came up the morning said,
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As my Tattoos Fade Away.


I look back, on all these years,
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Glastonbury Highs.

The festival was over,
Now just forgotten fans,
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Steel Toe Broncho,
Skin and bones, that don't go,
The Broken heart didn't know,
Should've thrown the race.
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Attention.

I threw the last egg at the paper shop,
Looked in the empty box,
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Chapter 16

They threw the book at him that day,
Hit the floor in a peculiar way,
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The Plough Boy

A ship made of Mighty Oaks cut to the bow,
With full sail and crew, she was Hawaii bound,
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The Ceiling.

I lay here with the ceiling looking down on me,
In the neon night light, I don't want to see,
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The Boy

Today I went back home,
Back ten years and nine.
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