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CARNATION

Shivering with nerves and cool
driving about
the old city fool
I eye the ire
strike steel to flint
buy items much needed
upending the lint
truly need a womans
fire
my man bones marrow
grown drafty and cold
flowers and texture
waylaid by speed
my swayback new walk
has lost most of its pride
top of that hill
my tired stead and I
shadow fixture
now the only thing
thats bold

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my age...I hate the damp...only come on in the last five
years...like one day...2007 had perfect vision...but by
2014 it was MIA....2009 i spent hours grooming removing
every single white...not grey hairs from my head moustache
and beard...left the little 'soul patch' white...in Jail the two
gaurds male and female noted this...asked me about this
my cellie in holding I got to know well said I reminded him
of Dumbledore....somehow made it through another month
got my rent in my pocket...picked up the odds and ends that
Bunni needed doing....we've been together through thick and
thin and had the time apart..also needed.... Ian who has been
the stalwart keel of this ship for as long as I remember said it
best.....He is more real a wizard then the fancy actors that did
a smash up job in the Harry Potter series....but his excellent
job of helping others out and his Lady got me looking at my
relationship here then the whining I was doing...That and he
actually ..just like a friend of mine worked for defense..meaning
he got in..passed security tests...(I did too....mid nineties...minor
job...but if they think your a threat...uh huh...) part of my study
of the whole vietnam thing which will haunt me to the day i die
was that....you needed to be a buddy...and look after yourself
and that being nuts was part of the unwritten code of serving..
same as on the street.....I was like that dude from Platoon though
the scarred up dude...only mine are on the inside.....but I get it
now...the Dafoe character.....saw a lot of those....

interior reflections......if I had a photo to post on mood
it would be throwing cards into a hat
pick your genre....
I truly have come through a lot in my time
and in damn decent shape for the tournament
and a lot of my work is complete fiction
because theres no way snowball chance in hell
im writing what really went down
too political
too hot after all these years
I got the Buddy thing down
had it
just didnt want to live it
but the damn buddies just
walked in..
and sat at my table
go figure...

im a nothing...nobody special
I had a greepeace membership
at one time
and the worse thing I done
I forgot to take back that library book...
starting to be real as the world is getting
the same attitude out there
maybe a few poets
copping that wind thats blowing

in a good mood
today......
waking up
Guiniviere got her shopping
list and my rides locked to
the post...

just sitting here warming up
but its showtime

..again...

WOLF

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and we did not know
you had all the time
to gloss through my
APPOINTMENT
POEM
which still
you won't
I did message also

I can write something spontaneous as your stuff.
Amazing!!!

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Thank U Audri!
waylaid by speed...was hoofing it along for a few years
was all about the business
and been winding down on the internal coping mechanism
poison free for some time..
well..more then a few days
the old writing was very faded and blurred
this writing is about a 'yes' to how I feel
as in..'yes' I admit I need the womans touch
rather then live alongside 'her'
since bumping it up a notch a lot of things dont
get my ire up like it once did
since admitting I do have an ego
and that i dont have to try to tame it
or make it a display
things are more or less falling into a steady
pace...

Nice having the acquaintance!

Mr W

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