Tony Walton Poems

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1.
The Girl In A Yellow Dress

I saw you yesterday in a yellow summer dress,
the color of high dosage diazepam, through the
rain streaked window of a familiar bar, as I walked by,
somewhere in the city,
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2.
A Hotel In Florida

In the stunned heat of
a day in July
A woman is leaning from
the fifth-floor window
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3.
A Letter To My Ancestors In 1607

I realize you are busy planting crops, fighting
typhoid, dysentery and various fevers,
not to mention Indians (they control gambling now!)
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4.
Familiar Visitor

They come for you-
in old fashioned hats,
from where you don't know,
to f uck you hard against every wall
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5.
11 Months In London

As I turn left off Oxford Street
cloaked in a low sky and shuffling
along with the other furrowed brows
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6.
Not Thinking Too Much

I walked my dog this morning
and as we stepped into the newness
of the day, a large Boxer ran over
and bit him,
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7.
Pete

My friend Pete is a good man,
been with the Company for 9 years,
married to his wife for 7 years.
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8.
Happiness

Oh, my friend
you have got to
create it
invent it
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9.
Tuesday 1: 37 Am

She had moved to her bedroom
almost a year ago,
existence: it deepens
like a coastal shelf
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10.
Coloring Inside The Lines

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself.Aloud."
Coco Chanel

Childrens's crayons, a clustered
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