Second Place

It’s been proven, hundreds over since, the decision was the best that we could make. If I wasn’t clear enough before… that’s not what I said, and I bent over backwards just to speak. If you’ve got things straight in your head then you’ve got bigger problems than me. I’ll send you straight to your […]


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Ten Minutes

ten minutes to downtown is ten minutes too farwhen my friends all say i’m crazy,maybe i’m being selfishmaybe i’m just scareddon’t be gone when i get home… i need you there if i had to explain it i wouldn’t know were to startit’s like you’re falling in love, while i just fall apartten minutes to […]


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Better Half

i saw my better halfthe better half of a decadeslip through my hands inside her hands inside my pocketswhen she reached for her advatages i should have done somethingi saw my baby boy digging his own holekeeping alive family traditionswhen he lied about intentions i should have done somethingwelli blame myself for everythingit keeps my […]


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One Year Later

Wandering the K-10 As anniversaries end, Pondering events that brought us here. If anyone remember when Around the world and back again Was a dream not quite so clear? Overwhelms Over the hills and away Was not a mistake. Did that straight and narrow, Nailed self-righteous arrow Get to be so decadent? Could you trade […]


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Regret

Maybe I’ve forgotten the name and the address of everyone I’ve ever known. It’s nothing I regret. Save it for another day. It’s the school exam and the kids have run away. I would like a place I could call my own, have a conversation on the telephone. Wake up every day that would be […]


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Campfire Kansas

woke up at eight, started a fire had a few drinks, we all felt inspired jumped in the stream, our shoes and canteens the water is bitter cold laid in the raft till it started moving the current just sang, the song was so soothing we stopped along the way on a beach in the […]


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My Apology

you’ll be accepting my apology for taking things too seriouslysometimes i’m old enough to to keep routines, sometimes i’m child enough to scream foreverything i broke in twoyou’re barely missing me, i’m missing you and everything you doi really domy once photographic memory for recollection’s sake is failing mei can’t remember tor the life of […]


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Red Letter Day

you’re got some nervei never knew what with the world we gaveaway in front of youi see it all much clearer nowyou’re just a phasei’ve gotten over anyhowit’s overi’m not giving in againwe’re loyal like brothers, just us versus all the othersi trusted misleading promises worth repeatinghow could you do this to me?red letter day […]


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Anne Arbour

Sooner or later more, These words to paper pour. Compose apologies, To bring you back to me. What words were written for: One girl whose pages tore. I’ll bet you never knew, With a letter came a fool for you. She says she’d worked it out, This room’s not big enough for two. He swears […]


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Action & Action

you really think you’re bigger than thisto the tune of ten thousand lispswho would have thought we’d representwhen i can’t take a compliment?overexposure is the key and any focus on me is appreciatedas it should beno wonder nowi finally found the right formula for…you taught me howi play the foolevery mistake that i makei couldn’t […]


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