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Cold Wind Blowing Hard
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Cold Wind Blowing Hard |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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sometimes at the strangest times I think about the nights when I slept on hard concrete street slept cold wind blowing hard devouring me I think of it now faces of those like me left their homes to join the brotherhood of people such as myself some of them passing around a bottle sweet, sweet wine not me when I drank I wanted a lounge high class or skid row never much mattered to me when I look around see all the locks on all the doors giving the impression they think what’s inside is safe they’re wrong of course nothing is safe ever but this is democratic system you work hard for your dollars you hope to save it come to think of it that’s how totalitarian system works also only thing is . . . tyrannical rulers like to turn asylums open to make even more street people not like a democracy who merely forgets their bums ahhh . . . whatever its still a cold wind blowing hard devouring me ©April 3, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton ~*~ In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. ~*~ [This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (04-05-2014 10:29 AM).] |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
sounds like the demons are out to wreck havoc on the psyche tonight. Hurray, hide under the covers  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Yeah you're right, Emma. I just can't keep them all at bay all the time. They sneak back in from time to time. Appreciate your input tonight. ~*~ In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. ~*~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
...I think it is the olives from the martini coming back to haunt him... Was your birthday buzz biting you in your business?  I like the way you tied everything up with repeating that last line. Lori |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I think you might be right, those vodka martini's did take a toll on me. Appreciate your input, Lori. ~*~ In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. ~*~ |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
"They think what's inside is safe" Hit the nail on the head there. Still, not all of those street people you speak of have forgotten the world sees them as bums... some of them had to lose it all in order to find themselves, and some of them refuse to walk the path the world has laid out for them again. It might not hold any manner of true logic, but if they have greater peace where they are, who would I be to knock it? Wow, I could go on forever about this piece... invokes a lot of thought. Nicely done. Michael |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
You are absolutely right when you said, "some of them had to lose it all in order to find themselves." That was me in spades. But I have certainly found myself, with the help of writing my poems and not backing off from the real deal and how it was. Thanks, Michael, for understanding. ~*~ In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. ~*~ |
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