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Sliding To The Dive
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Sliding To The Dive |
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jwesley Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563Spring, Texas 
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Brubeck with Gerry Mullican Blue Roots in '68. I was 26, Crap had hit the fan. I found myself in a bar, divorced, broke, rocking back and forth on a bar stool, arms crossed, hands on my shoulders, chin digging into my wrist, ice-cold glass of beer before me, doing nothing, just like the several before it. I was in pain man, deep hurt, to the core: Brubeck was the only thing that made any sense. The only sense I wanted to hear. And even that didn't stop the basic rawness that burned me through and through. Cause: Hell If I Know! She never said - just took my kid, barred the door, kicked me out! Or was I just not listening? She might as well have done it in my balls, fixed me good - At least I'd have had a reason, for pain . . . The barmaid put her elbows on the bar, chin in her hands looked me hard in the eye, pain in the wrinkles around hers. It took balls, she said, to do it that way . . . Yeah, I replied, not that I ever found any on her. I straightened a little, grabbed the beer, chugged it, looked at the empty, Damn - Still, Nothing! © wesley james beard, jr. august 31, 2017 |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
My kind of get down poetry. I relate. ~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~ |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
this is so true, so "alive", the kind of experience that makes grow up (unfortunately), the poem is a jewel forever, i had a few like this, but never married yann |
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Poet In Pink Senior Member Posts 1066 MI |
The title drew me in and the rest of the write was honest and true emotion ~ I imagine this happens more than we ever hear about ~ Nicely penned Jimmy ~ Enjoyed  Alana |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Jimmy my friend, You write this genre so well. You get gritty in the human heart. ~L |
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