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Brad Majors
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0 posted 2003-05-19 04:42 PM



Where have the mad prophets gone?
cowering in rainfilled gutters
smelling foul
muttering intelligible
words lost
evaporated before
hitting the wind

I remember you old gray hair
long winded stories
half drunk
repeating yourself
spitting truth between
bellows of Jack
I went back today
to the spot where
you begged for change
now an office building

A young drifter has taken
your place
except he has nothing to say

Where did you go old intoxicated poet?
Is your world better now?
swimmiming in whiskey
spouting Blake

Where have the mad prophets gone?
I yell
slurring words
into fused syllable
repeating myself
Where have the mad prophets gone?
"here old man"
waking to the clink of change
muttering long winded angry
poetry
'til the street sleeps
and I disapear.

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1 posted 2003-05-19 05:22 PM


You are on a roll,  I must say.  Lots of
Umph in this one...thanx Brad.

Brad Majors
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2 posted 2003-05-19 06:32 PM


thank you
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3 posted 2003-05-20 06:29 AM


. . .  this one was definitely a trip worth taking . . .

where you ask?  hmmm  . . . look above
lol

loved this
xxoo

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4 posted 2003-05-20 07:02 AM


Corner of Yonge and Dundas TO
Brad Majors
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5 posted 2003-05-20 11:12 AM


thank you
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6 posted 2003-05-21 05:03 PM


In Baltimore yanno ...I'm smiling and nodding..
Brad Majors
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7 posted 2003-05-21 05:24 PM


thank you
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8 posted 2003-05-21 05:28 PM


I figured they were all medicated into silence by now. (That just has the reverse effect on ME.)

I agree, you are on a roll.

Loved this!

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