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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-09-07 08:18 AM



light up a cigarette
ahhh . . . suicide rewarding
calms you down
curbs your appetite
my baby and I
give each other bodily warmth
sharing our needs
as easily
as we share our love
for what is love
if not sharing what's inside
our hearts
love is not all honeymoon
with sparkling champagne
at your fingertips
no . . .
each loving couple
must work out how to make love
last through the years
and hard times
doesn't have to be forever exciting!
but it does need to retain
enough of the exciting times
to recognize them when they visit us again
that then is when
we put away our day-to-day
sometimes mundane drudgery of living
to break out in an
understanding smile
narcotic rapture burns inside
oh, the dark need of flesh
as our lips meet
I taste the dead years of our past.

©September 5, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

© Copyright 2014 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2014-09-07 09:25 AM


I do believe you have nailed it nicely my friend!

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2014-09-07 09:43 AM


Good morning, Lori, and thank you so much.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

suthern
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since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723
Louisiana
3 posted 2014-09-08 10:31 AM


each loving couple
must work out how to make love
last through the years
and hard times
doesn't have to be forever exciting!
but it does need to retain
enough of the exciting times
to recognize them when they visit us again

Amen!!! Well said... I like this a lot!!

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