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Sensations

Our lives are full, too full-- But full of what? TV and dis-ease, Distant neighbors just there across the streetOr on the left beyond the fence— All I know of them is the constancy of their yapping...

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Dead Or Alive?

What's the deal, did I die? I don't think so. Okay, then, don't clam up!

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A Thousand Dollars

If you sent me a thousand dollarsWith which to make the trip from here to you, That would be enough, More than enough, But not enough to overcome my constipated brain And aches and pains—I would have...

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God Will Get You Either Way

I've decided God is indifferent to some of us and hates the rest. Which group I fall in, I can only guess.

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It Injures Me

It injures me when you think ill of me, Though I guess in truth I injure myself When I know you are forced to such disgust And disappointment and forgiveness By all my vulgar snarling and despair....

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I Weep For Poems And People

(For My Aunts Pearl and Louise Who Died The Same Day This Week)I weep for poems that went astray And people who seem long-gone as dust That some ill wind blew away eons ago, But they only now have...

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Where Is That Painted Lady?

Here's a link to a poem written in my old age about the "first love" of my youth. As I've done previously with other poems that were either long or of very special quality (this one is a little of...

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Kill The Sidebar

One of the recent changes I made at Judy Garland's Blues (poetry blog) that I really like was to get rid of the sidiebar by changing the template to the "Simple II" that's been around a long time, but...

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Forever Young

by Bob DylanMay God bless and keep you alwaysMay your wishes all come trueMay you always do for othersAnd let others do for youMay you build a ladder to the starsAnd climb on every rungMay you stay...

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How Or Why

I know you’re younger than me And none of my business, But I wish I had a pretty woman like you to kissOnce again before I forget how or why. But I’m really just admiring you When I didn’t know I did—I...

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Swiss Cheese Memory

I had an odd remembrance the other day. First I recalled the ascot I wore for a couple of my teenage years, probably in the same time period that I bought into the popularity of Carnaby Street--you...

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IN MY LIFE

(By Lennon/McCartney)There are places I rememberAll my life though some have changedSome forever not for betterSome have gone and some remainAll these places have their momentsWith lovers and friends I...

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from "Things Are Strange" or "Things Have Changed"

Bob Dylan: Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meetPutting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street

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Missing You

I miss her a little still, it’s true, but I miss you more and you’re still here.I missed out somewhere In a long-ago dream that never ceased, I took a long step across a too wide stream When things got...

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Delight

You were always such a good girl. It made it more delightful to me That you chose me at one time to do those bad things with!You were so nice, I mean, if not good! You were nice to your parents, To...

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In The Flame

I don’t really care for living, I fear, But I’m incapable of facing death—Not the rope or the jolt or any drowning or the gun. There’s nothing to it, I am told, but I can’t get there. I just stay stuck...

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Beautiful Day, My Ass

“It’s a beautiful day,” the house-painter said each morning as I went out, and it always seemed such garbage to me. I’m sure that sunny days must be of worth To those who work outdoors, But I don’t...

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Too Late

It’s getting too late to die young, So I’ll have to live with that—Though I cannot say how long.

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Carmen Delzell (Opposites)

I hear the voice of an American woman living in Mexico. She speaks of her attachments to nature in a rural landscape With 2 burros, 9 dogs, and some chickens. She is immersed, it seems, Though she is...

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Grateful Or Not

Not one of my lovers Were ever much like me or even close, But for that I should be grateful. I should probably even roll over and play dead.Almost all those I loved, you see, were guilty In some small...

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