When twilight finds you by the sea and memory tears collect renounce the tide that has taken me.

Can you love me laissez-faire when the path leads to and fro and not succumb to daily wear?

Raju had no choice. Beggars can’t be choosers. He had to do it. His natural disposition didn’t suit this kind of work, but a man does what he must do to survive. That’s how it goes.

Here is the bed where I can’t sleep and there’s the desk where I can’t write, abandoned papers in a heap.

A cleverer student would remember Milton’s voice a line of iambs marching free, an ego perhaps from God’s own lips.

awake again without a reason why the ghostly fingers drag along my spine telling me that everything is fine that I don’t have to suffer; dry my eyes.

In the hills behind my house, bodies burn The vapors rise over the sakuras While I sit by my window with my dogs

If boots could talk the tales they’d tell of wearied limbs up random fell

I remember… Vivid sights.

I’ve lived in France for decades but still feel an outsider. Born in St. Thomas, I had Jewish parents of Creole-color, wealthy merchants who never approved of my valuing

How is it I will know them? shall it show in the white of their eye shining brighter than pure laid snow

I know we don’t share points of view you skirt ‘round me, I guard ‘round you

Pray to an ever-nigh somewhat, yet know thing With a fool’s knowledge spawned in unearthing voids

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