tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27788385336107288092024-03-14T05:05:59.693-07:00Fallout cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-23238226715925656122016-11-05T13:16:00.000-07:002016-11-20T12:07:16.761-08:00Images of Parrish<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'My Underwood'; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">you don’t come in night dreams instead your image flashes </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">in bright light as I walk the dog around the pond</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">you pedal past gleaming sweat feet a blur head lowered </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">against the wind your demons in close pursuit </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">you never had a neutral gear</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">i lift a banana pudding from the oven and </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">you appear wielding a spoon to reach around me </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">stab at the meringue shovel hot sweetness into your mouth</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">turn the spoon on me paint my lips with sticky</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">confection as my arms fly up in surrender</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">the taste lingers as you fade away like so much mist</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">at the bistro by the sea i glance up to see your</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">handsome face lined with lightening bolts of the storms that rage</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">in your beautiful head you smile flirt with the pretty</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">brunette who sets down your perrier</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">you wink and call her darlin’ i study the menu </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">and look up to see only the surf slapping the pier</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">in the sunroom you sit ankle over knee in the </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">yellow chair across from mine heel pumping the floor as</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">you swipe a hand through tight brown curls </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">pale green eyes the color of mine fix a question </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">that hangs in the air between us what will happen next?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><i>the answer comes at your deathbed when your heart slows stops </i></span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-27985800355024164102015-07-08T16:24:00.000-07:002015-07-10T03:28:06.580-07:00Summer 2014 - Happy Birthday, Parrish<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: 'My Underwood'; font-size: 12px; min-height: 12px;">
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I stand at the end of the pier</div>
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the sound stretching out between me</div>
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fiery sunset of clouds purpled by</div>
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the chemical plant the pulp mill.</div>
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desite the seagull droppings</div>
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you fixed your elbows on the rail </div>
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adjusted your sunglasses & cap </div>
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studied the horizon for the yellow</div>
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pilot boat bringing your father</div>
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back through choppy waters.</div>
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Faces hidden behind dark shades </div>
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from Nebraska where there is </div>
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Chest puffed out you pointed to the craft</div>
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as the boatman worked it snugly </div>
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against the pier’s metal ladder.</div>
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Your father fixed his hands on it </div>
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his head popped under the guard chain</div>
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& he stood as you pulled him </div>
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into a man hug.</div>
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The unfortunates stepped in to shake </div>
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snap photos & drift down the dock</div>
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to see what the crabbers were catching. </div>
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It’s today again & and I shift </div>
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my gaze back to the fiery sunset</div>
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now slipping over the edge</div>
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of the earth it splays rays of pink</div>
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& fuchsia & orange into </div>
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the purple haze settles into</div>
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the horizon & a tear gleams</div>
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on my cheek in its last light. </div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-8137682146334121402014-02-13T20:50:00.002-08:002016-04-11T08:49:51.714-07:00Once More - A Valentine for Clint<div style="font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">soft lips sweet breath of dying </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">trace your fingers on my face </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">& shoulders wash my back </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">dissolve my fear with water warm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">& lie with me naked in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">perfumed sheets your legs pulled up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to fit into mine as tears </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">flow down my cheeks & you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">darling it’s been a great ride.</span><br />
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-23125611597660181442013-05-27T07:21:00.000-07:002016-04-11T08:57:17.744-07:00Worms in Your Head <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">bore holes in your soul </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">blind you</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">to dangers that trip you </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">hurl you into the gutter</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">of drunkenness</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">mania overcomes you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">expansive gestures slice into</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">you moan </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">work your legs against</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Baby Boom n. a sudden, large, sustained increase in the birthrate, especially the one in the United States and Canada from the later 1940s through the early 1960s)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px; text-align: left;">Lined up at the bar like crows on a fence</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">our conversation is muffled by the din</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of others talking. We are baby boomers at </span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">the </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">neighborhood bar, single every one of us, avoiding </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">There is comfort in familiar faces, bustling servers, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the smiling barkeep, clanging sounds from the kitchen, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the smell of grease. We nuzzle our drinks, sip slowly, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">roll the taste around in our mouthes - and sigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">One watches “Jeopardy” with closed captioning and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">shouts out the answers. Another bemoans the stupidness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">of others while yet another talks to the air. Two slip </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">outside to smoke. Left to our own devices, we eat </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">fried food and have another drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Conversation lags and we climb off our stools, </span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">deal </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">with our coats and start for the door. Along the way, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">we stop to speak to other boomers we recognize but </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">cannot name. We smile and wish each other good night </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">and walk to our cars and drive home.</span></div>
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<br />cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-51386756027976478252013-03-03T13:26:00.001-08:002016-04-11T09:02:41.333-07:00Unknown Ocean<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">vivid colors drip from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">your brush, paint my dreams bold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">orange and yellow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">bedclothes roll, waves on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">an unknown ocean </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">splash, flash rainbows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the floor, drip off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">the edge of my room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">as i drift through space</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">i see light, feel warmth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">against my naked flesh as </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0.0px;">my personal black hole</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0px;">sweeps me down its cold shaft</span></span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-355397650174733052011-12-27T15:45:00.000-08:002016-04-11T09:08:31.759-07:00Holiday Dirge<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">by blasts of bitter wind</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">echo their song of summer</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">steered by gusts of august</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">five hundred miles away </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">doors open & close as bells </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">chirp their tinny tune </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">and my son leaves for nowhere</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">a blizzard blows in my heart</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">pumping glaciers of blood</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">to frigid fingers toes</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">its only song a dirge</span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-76365840831344983092011-10-31T16:32:00.000-07:002016-04-11T09:11:24.842-07:00For Ruth<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">she lies on her bed eyes closed</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">her hands quiet & folded</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">across her heaving chest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">eyes shifting behind her lids</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">the hint of a flinch as I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">tell me she is there aware</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">i take her cold hand fold it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">into both of mine lean in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">to coo into her ear say </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">peace will soon override </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">her torment breath come easily </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">the whisper of movement </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">in her frail fingers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">tells me she hears believes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">her body descends into </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">the arms of Morpheus </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">silently calling back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">to me that she is safe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">i stroke her hair kiss her cheek</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">await her next soundless plea</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">heavy blocks cubes of concrete</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">line the streets block after block</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">they show my way home a block </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of ice waits between my poem </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and me shows no sign of melting</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">obscures my view of words blocked</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">by its shine</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">wooden lettered blocks tumble</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in my head & i am one</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the one with the C just blocked</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">by the Q i am a blockhead</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">martinis are my drug of choice </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">made with tanqueray frosty cold </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">straight up garnished with two olives</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">not three not fancy ones green ones </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">stuffed with pimiento served on a </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">charger no paper napkin for </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">my elegant libation</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the masterpiece arrives in a </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">shiny silver shaker on a </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">black enamel tray the waiter</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">shakes it and in a display that </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">leaves me breathless pours the elixir </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">into my glass crystal of course</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">when the icy rim touches my</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">lips i close my eyes and exhale</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">a sigh as big as montana</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">i caress the rim of the glass</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">with my finger stir the contents</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">with olives speared on sterling </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">silver mini-swords</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">i swirl a second sip around</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">my teeth taste it on my gums </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">my tongue swallow slowly savor </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the essence of juniper as </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">it finishes in my nose </span></span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-1531248321841430242011-09-17T15:21:00.000-07:002016-04-11T09:31:00.269-07:00Over A Cliff<div style="font: 14.0px 'Courier New'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">as we leap into the blaze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">LInked to<a href="http://gooseberrygoespoetic.blogspot.com/"> Gooseberry Garden</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">The sound of your Texan’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">me with your crooked smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">September 09, 2011</span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-44410731018310339752011-09-01T08:03:00.000-07:002016-04-11T09:39:06.543-07:00Curtains<b></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">I see my world through gauze curtains </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">wafted by fog tumbling over </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">itself into the corners of my brain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Behind my eyes a carousel </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">of blurred images swirl</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">to organ music piped into my ears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Hints of smoke filter through my nose</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">riding on the memory of a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">skirt aflame engulfing my leg.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Thunder rattles my drowse winds blow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">through the curtains snatching them down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> their remnants strewn across my bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">I drift from sleep to consciousness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> nausea strikes from within pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">emerges from behind the screen </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">of Lortab.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Attacked by unseen torches my </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">wounds reignite scorch my flesh anew</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> send tears sliding down my face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">I taste their salt reach for the bottle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> wait for opaque curtains to once more</span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-32556682982963460602011-08-26T18:22:00.001-07:002016-04-11T09:42:22.455-07:00a slave to words<div style="font: 14.0px 'Courier New'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">sometimes a piece of work</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">drips off the ends of my</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">keyboard & writes itself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">at others words wedged in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">creases of my right brain </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> await excavation </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> conveyance to the page</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">words my dearest lovers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;"> my most cruel enemies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">serve me at their pleasure</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">& make of me their slave</span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-22912788909862479212011-08-20T14:48:00.001-07:002016-04-11T09:45:39.306-07:00If I Die Young<div style="font: 14.0px 'Courier New'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">at 95 surrounded</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">by friends and family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">as we take afternoon tea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">there will be champagne on ice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">lovely luscious lemon squares</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">salty spicy-hot cheese straws </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">slices of soft sweet pound cake</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">i will hold court from my bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">swathed with sheer silk canopies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">as yards of laughter cut from </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">the bolt of my life fade to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">endless stories born of our</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">intertwined lives braided of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">love woven into fine cloth </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">i will smile sip tea wait to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">take sweet kisses from each of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">hold your warm hands in mine </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">cool now as i feel myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">fade grow smaller </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">sunshine will shimmer through thin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">curtains as it begins its</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">descent bathing our faces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">in soft light of my dying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">i will love you forever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">© 2011 cj Schlottman</span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-51035058592917741842011-08-06T15:15:00.000-07:002017-07-20T06:20:34.039-07:00Sarah at 28<div style="font: 14.0px 'Courier New'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">at Wal Mart. A furnace </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">blasts my face as I</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">step into the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"> stumble to my car </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">You are waiting crisply dressed </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span>your face shaven smooth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">The nurse dispenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">days you will stay with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">Our cabbie drives us to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">South Beach you chatting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">him up like the you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">before bipolar struck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">Calmer now since new</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">medicine you are still</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">unable to amble</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">clipping at a brisk pace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">The peek-a-boo sunshine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">stings my pale skin a stark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">contrast to your bronze arms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">We walk down Ocean Drive </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">hail a cab our ride to the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">cool dim light of my hotel.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">You switch on the TV.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In minutes we are asleep </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">dodging our demons</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">if only for the while.</span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-25356186495416150902011-06-28T12:55:00.000-07:002016-04-11T10:05:12.599-07:00For Loren<div style="font: 14.0px 'American Typewriter Light'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">when you took me to your side</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">made as to soothe me help me heal? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">What happened to the man who </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">brought a waterfall of </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">poked a tiny hole in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">my heart so a trickle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">What made you want me to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">fuck your lover then turn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">on us when you thought </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">I had a viper spewing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">meant to burn out my core</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">forgetting you molted </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">your writhing nest of madness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">I stare you in the eye</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">smooth my dress brush past you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;">and wipe my hands on the hem.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I snap blossoms bunch them</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a broken breath attack </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the hill as I scramble </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">alongside take your hand</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">never a thought that you</span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-80111408715920329332011-06-05T07:33:00.000-07:002016-04-11T10:10:51.919-07:00Night<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'American Typewriter'; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Night comes in sparkling gems</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of sunlight, twinkles of </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">stars in your hazel eyes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">whose feet we linger late</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">give glow to your visage</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">radiate to my own.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">You flash a smile, fold my </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">sun sinks into the sea.</span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-32864972717504005192011-05-13T11:11:00.000-07:002016-04-11T10:13:14.225-07:00Thursday Afternoon<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Crisp, clean shaven </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">no hint of booze on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">your breath, you arrive </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">with your new girlfriend</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the one you say makes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you feel like </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">you never felt,</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">the one you say you </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">want to marry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You recross your legs</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">tug at starched cuffs </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">fish for compliments. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There is talk of orchids</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">her hobby and mine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">as you fidget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I like her at once</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">this girl you say will </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">drive out your demons. </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I need to believe this </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">girl who knows all your </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">secrets and loves you anyway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">is not just another person </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">for you to use up, suck dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I ignore the warning</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">sting behind my breasts </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">smile and fight back the urge </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to leap to my feet </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">shove her toward the door</span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">scream for her to run </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">escape while she can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Instead I choose to lie </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">to myself, allow my </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">love for you, ill-spent</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and wasted, to blind me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I owe this girl the truth </span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">but if I tell her all</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">she will abandon you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then who will suffer with me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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cj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-26201974421078125352011-04-24T10:23:00.000-07:002016-04-11T10:18:51.069-07:00BlessingsRemembering the glint<br />
in Clint’s eye when we touched<br />
glasses of Chardonnay<br />
sparkling yellow, oaky<br />
this wine that brushed our lips<br />
fondled our tongues, colored<br />
our cheeks with roses red.<br />
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Addie, my gift from God<br />
sleeping in the next bed<br />
honeyed hair splayed around<br />
her pillow, a halo<br />
a rainbow, glints of gold<br />
shining in dawn’s soft light.<br />
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Parrish at three, feeding<br />
redbirds in our back yard <br />
tossing bread in the air<br />
his tiny hands waving<br />
inviting them to eat,<br />
his hair a golden mass<br />
of curls, so normal he<br />
no hint of what would come.<br />
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Paul, my ever stalwart<br />
rock, my only brother<br />
like me, a survivor<br />
of unspeakable loss<br />
in whose hands I would<br />
place my very being <br />
certain he would save me.<br />
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My three devoted dogs <br />
who never hold a grudge<br />
give freely of their love<br />
lie by my side, snoring<br />
softly, sleeping soundly<br />
warming me at my core.<br />
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Blessings, rememberings<br />
these and so many more<br />
decorate my living<br />
stain it with hues of spring.<br />
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© cj Schlottmancj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778838533610728809.post-7936773976048529822011-04-18T08:55:00.000-07:002011-04-18T08:59:14.440-07:0048 HoursAgain, fear and dread come<br />to throttle me out of <br />the peace I have found for<br />just one moment in time.<br />Again, paralyzed with<br />fear, I shriek the silent<br />scream of my much wounded <br />heart, heavy with the sting<br />of not knowing, spilling<br />tears and fears through my core.<br />Missing, he, my only<br />son, poisoned by illness<br />and drugs to keep him sane.<br />My mind, a toxic land-<br />fill of past loss, can but<br />imagine him alone<br />in danger of himself<br />at the mercy of those<br />who would suck the very<br />marrow from him and leave<br />him a pathetic pile <br />of wounds and confusion.<br />After forty eight hours<br />again, there is word of<br />his appearance miles from<br />home, in hospital. I<br />remember to breathe and<br />wonder when this season<br />of fear will reappear.<br /><br /><br />© cj Schlottmancj Schlottmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18217936774632262633noreply@blogger.com4