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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana

0 posted 2013-07-03 06:50 AM



been down many roads
I don't apologize for any of them
I used to
I don't anymore
what's done is done
can't be undone
I've walked those cities' streets
and felt the callousness
of the neon blitz
I look back
not in a prideful way
although I'm proud I survived
that neon blitz
I've stood
on the edge of the world
only to wind up back under the neon blitz
over two decades
living that life
searching for the measure of me
in all-night diners
broke
sipping slowly on coffee
trying to make contact
searching out eyes as desperate as mine
sometimes I connected
she and I
went through our get acquainted spiel
both had perfected our
individual shtick
our desperate needs
would soon lead to desperate intimacy
tomorrow would come
much too early

©June 20, 2013 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

© Copyright 2013 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2013-07-03 07:34 AM


loneliness is a desparate state of affairs and it is palpable in this piece. Raw in its honesty. Glad you are a million miles from there now.


Lori  

JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2013-07-03 08:04 AM


Oh, I'm glad also, Lori. Thank you for saying what you did, you understand.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
3 posted 2013-07-04 12:54 PM


Wonderful lines full of reality...James
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