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viking_metal
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In a Jeep, Minnesota.

0 posted 2009-07-07 01:35 PM


You were wonderful
running back and forth
flashes of happy light
beneath each of your tan feet

The people cried out with excitement
watching every explosion
in this nighttime hour.
I watched only you
wearing those scratched plastic safety glasses
filled with concern and cheap-beer laughter.

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Bad Habits. (series.)



Thirty bits of glass had become my teeth,
They were breaking each and every time I tried to speak.

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with you
1 posted 2009-07-07 02:18 PM


I want to see things with your eyes Paul


Spiros Zafiris
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2 posted 2009-07-07 03:59 PM


..indeed..a nice visual, captured in poetic words..thanks


..spiros

viking_metal
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In a Jeep, Minnesota.
3 posted 2009-07-07 07:47 PM


Thanks you two.


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Thirty bits of glass had become my teeth,
They were breaking each and every time I tried to speak.

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