ANTHOLOGY OF A POLTROON

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I know there's no room
	for me
		to be
	anything but mistaken
		for a tree
	drifting in blue breeze.

	Then there's fees
		--you fees,
			my foes
		make cold my toes
		and shown me
			a new high,
		I'd never know
			in getting lo.
		Woe me, woe be-gone
			traveler of rancid
				nights and dirty
					tracks.
			Hit me clean
				but never listen
					to me speak.
			You'd be wrong then
				'cause I am a liar
			and never know it
				cause I lied
					again----
				to my mother
					my poor
					   poor
					   mother.

Andersonville Revisited

Winners are winners
	and the losers are beat
		with puns and
	funny bone back breaks
		in Saigon.

Red is red
	and blue is fifty shades
		of mint tea
	runny, down the nose
		of the Wooly Mammoth.

Please try, please try me
		in Martinique,
	only when the clouds roam,
		only when the
			poet's public,
		only when the Sun is
				set on
			finding not a me
				but three other
		girls trapped in the
			sand tomb barista's
		choice from Nashville
			or anywhere else
		but Andersonville.

Beat Spring

Forward thinkers, fast thinkers,
edge brinkers
Pond drinkers
    Chant singers
   Hallelujah screamers
  Driving beamers.

	The hot cup special,
walk around with your
shirt in this back seat
	so you can bathe 
neat
	and look like a
beatnik steeped in heat
	Or try to write
a poem on some tumultuous
feat.
	And please see your
shrink
because you made him
blink.
	And this mood is
passing
and this one is not
	but it's latent
		you see ?
And the kingpin is staring
	you down
and gives you a wink.

Trapped in boney lapse
	your tears finish last
and you can never ever
	have fun or relax
and you sleep on trash
	from your card that's
		maxed.