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Poem Details
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| Title: | East St Louis Blues |
| Author: | Jim |
| Date Submitted: | 9/27/2009 |
| Email: | jimellner@hotmail.com |
| Poem: |
Sleeping in a used car lot in East St.Louis Drunken messiah sheltered in unlocked automobile Oh how I miss being self medicated Living in ruptured state uptown Phoenix Arizona Stuck by age, churning in the sand Drunk history making event steel grey room of bars What''s buried, seething for a fix Dirt road medicine from the homestead Woodland Illinois juxtaposed streets of Los Angles Stationary plausible death of my wake Frighten people subtracting the broken chairs Police, youth hiding in nude female, always police Guiet town in the Midwest Outline for a photo shoot Screaming train whistle rocking my mind to sleep Mantra of the land Always everything shattered ... |