Thoughts
Poems, stories, and things that needed somewhere to go
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In the Yellow Maverick
Out on the open road,a young boy, should’ve been in school,instead, a passenger,riding down highways from one trouble spot to the next. We always left just in time,before shit hit the fan,before we made long-lasting friends,before report cards arrived,before we…
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Joe
Joe was a boy of 12, big for his age,they sure did make boys tough back then. His head was as large as a basketball,greasy hair parted on the left,swooping down, covering one eye.A scar on his lip made him…
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Echoes of Hiraizumi
In the heart of Japan, Hiraizumi stood as a testament to time, its temples and gardens whispering tales of samurai valor and ancient rituals. Rie’s ancestral home, a sprawling traditional mansion, was nestled on the outskirts. This house, with its…
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Tragic
The truth, so bitter,Provokes nausea, churnsIn your gut, a scenarioThat could have been bypassed. Vitality, entirely squandered,Did you presumeI’d remain in the dark? Those who place their trust,Find their beliefShattered by thoseUnfit for faith. Falsehoods and manipulationsOf reality have morphedInto…
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My son, I love you
A tale to tell of the man unknown, Lost to the world, to hardship thrown, In the veiled market of scant regard, In the shadow cast by life so hard. An orb of light, his heart’s sole crown, A son,…
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Longing
In the quiet of his solitude, beneath the sky so wide, An old man sits and thinks of youth, of love he’d cast aside. Back to a time when he was young, in the heart of Chicago’s glow, Working at…
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Broken
I am fundamentally broken In the hush of a thousand midnights, Underneath the star-pricked cloak, I confess to the silent cosmos, “I am fundamentally broken.” In the mirror of my soul’s reflection, There are cracks too deep to mend, A…
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