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Poems by t. kilgore
splake
cocaine street of dreams
(Ed. note: This poem originally
appeared in the chapbook, Cocaine Poems.)
used car salesman
racing willie loman ashes
backlot "beaters" slow
bar scene empty
early mornings shitting blood
camo-laced crystal meth "rush
country joe and fish grad
fire-fight angry tracers
ricocheting night lightning
lonely fat girl
sweaty latex intimacy
morning after greasy breakfast
ecstatic orgasms echoing
high school senior
exams-_-practices-_-infatuations
diploma-_-marriage-_-kids-_-bills
miserable-_-bitter-_-wife
waiting big muscle blowout
3 beers for dollar
7 a.m. early opening regulars
adult "jerry's kids"
beyond mister roger's neighbors
preachy sesame puppets
riding tall stools to oblivion
money-_-looks-_-mtv-_-"glam"
unloved guy hanging out__no girl
chain smoking hack
morning dry heaves
before off to work
ageless senior exile
repeated suicide failures
collection of grocery carts
twenty-four hour television
cnn-_-weather
channel "junkie"
shadowy-_-lost desperate days
mother-_-sons and daughter
husband's something else to own
shrieking at walls
becoming small-_-hard _-mean
hop in car-_-suitcase tapes
escape fantasy vanishing
obsessed painter-_-inspiration stillborn
out of touch with beauty
serotonin scotch prozac mood swings
oils dry caked-_-canvas empty
yellow pages open
"psychics"-_-"mediums"
sell-out poet
impotent-_-"cursor in control"
wanting to say important things
jackie daniel's mornings
piss-soaked pants noons
eternal café dishwasher
juvenile bumper sticker wisdoms
"see my new car"-_-hard-on
crazy to complain
it's only money logic
mailman-_-career 40 years
achy back-_-dull bloated routine
security-_-collecting more "stuff"
walking-_-talking-_-thinking-_-old
child crying all day
black-_-mad-_-angers
nothing to lose rage
growing growing growing
hate you-_-payback soon
small town gallery curator
nyc "big apple" wannabe chic
false heroic despair
forced sophistication posing
days-_-sipping
econo wine
nights-_-television sound off
'nazi" bureaucrat-_-boss powers
safe-_-"everything
in its place"
rules-_-crushing
heart's whispers
denying "making it" fantasy
raggedy ann "wind sandwiches"
god-_-mother-_-flag-_-apple pie
"ambitious neurotic drone"
sacrificing pieces of his soul
genuine greedy alchemist
searching only for gold
backwater-_-menagerie
on the street "cokers"
faces etched-_-deep lines
ruts of losing experiences
sinking below mediocrity
passing ersatz culture
mall-mart civilization
"it's" gone
we miss it" lives
no dancing stars waiting
somewhere farther on
deaf to wild geese
north for summering
hard cynics-_-not believing
loving-_-healing-_-magic
god-_-exists
in
special wilderness places
street of dreams
"quitters" soon
faceless opaque mirrors
no one remembering
©t. k. splake
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