Saturn is in
line with
Venus tonight
but, nothing's easy
when you're down.
The clowns walk
around, dressed in
yellow; fast food smiles
and cheeseburger
souls, and nothings
easy when you're down.
The dancers with poles
and sadness, that Halloween,
fires burning, childhood
perfumed dreams,
kind of sadness fills the
navy blue night.
I can't find the North star,
and the jack-lanterns lie rotting
in the streets of Nebraska
and Kansas, and the candies
all gone, and the kids wait.
And I can't find
the deep blue shirt I bought
at Goodwill, and Billy Burroughs
is filled with worms and earth,
and Bukowski looks at Satan
and says, "what do you
mean, we're out of whiskey?"
I've never been much for the stars,
and family and Thanksgiving are
painfully overrated,
and nothing's easy when
you're down.
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Author:
Thomas W Case (Pseudonym) (
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Comments6
I took that walk with you, read it twice, now I’m wearing my Goodwill Blue and Bukowski wasn’t home so I dialed Bartosievisch
Thank you brother.
Balladic and country beauty to these lines, easy but heavy hitting. Its expressiveness captivates Tom!
Thank you.
Superb imagery and meaning, a night with a poet kudos, once again you truly give the reader something special and I couldn't agree more i too am not so much of a people person. Painfully overrated so true.❤️
Thank you so much.
Heavy....definitely felt!!! Ahhh those Thanksgiving blues!!!!! Loved it!!!!
Thank you Liz
You are absolutely write .. nothing is easy when you are down ..
I know, I tried it ..
I also enjoyed the sound of your trilogy ..
Neville
Thank you bro.
Good write T.
Thank you.
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