

border linesI remember the time I asked you What the yellow lines in the road were for.border lines
You said they were traffic symbols: The double lines mean
you arent allowed to pass slow cars in front of you, the dotted lines mean you can
I doubt if I would have learned otherwise, (I was barely living then). But now Im getting older And remember what you said. I wonder why Youre passing me? Fast and faster and gone. the lines are two solid parallel barriers
Separating us forever. You, mother-- always ahead, moving too fast for yo


AtlantaThey say write what you know.Atlanta
Now, I know Atlanta.
I know her sensuous curves, they glow under the light of city stars.
I know her joys, frightening fortune five-hundred fantasies condescending on subtler dreams.
I've met her lovers, alight with the initial burn of passion, their flames blown out by her whims.
I know her secrets, the deep dark men that roam
the streets in search of something solid
the dirt beneath her fingernails, unnoticed, unwanted, unclean.
Somewhere the yellow bricks turn


Enigma MotherThe same year that I forgot love My mother shut doors with other men, And once, I think, I would have cried, But no...It wasn't then.Enigma Mother
Others thought they knew my name And I answered gladly, too. But all the blackish sins and shames Were hidden far from view.
The part that makes my furrowed brow Is when I realized I never knew her; not then, not now.
Enigma Mother,
Why?


HomefrontNature abandoned Time Long before Time left Nature.Homefront
Wreckage strewn wild in the world While Humanity hangs in the rafters.
Gentle sand, glass broken Last breath left before life Slips away with her
Wilted beauty Whithered by the loss of seconds And the loss of youth;
But now,
A ticking crashes cringing silence.
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