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The 69 Cent Photo Bin

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600 photos

Stacked 6 inches deep

Priced at 69 cents each

Can teach

Much about the relatively of life

Rather or a lifetime

How little I cared for any of these

Vintage photos

Who were these people were staring back

At me

Fishing, world landmarks, time spent vigoursly

Yet they have no value to me

They are just old photos

Of lives gone by

A single moment trapped in time

So I tossed one back on the pile

Old man with a big smile

Someday that will be me on that photo

Unknown and growing old

Passed down until someone gives up

And I’ll end up

In the 69 cent photo bin

 

 

 

NYC by Night

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After many pains, deliberations, and delays

We are finally ready to make our way

To NYC and the east coast

We packed our bags

But still left most

Of what we owned behind

Tight car little time

Here we go

I-80 and the turnpike

I pray it clear with no ice

And we hope to make New York city

By night

A Wonderous Test

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Plans were made

Belongings were moved

This place we lived

Now looked new

To my eyes and you

No longer our home

But a memory

A place we stayed

It’s hard to imagine

Us living elsewhere

But so calls life

Opportunity

And growth

So we had to let go

Of what we knew

For the unknown

Loosing sight of shore

Push from the dock

Just a little more

We move on

Happy and sad

Love was nourished here

Love will grow

Wherever we go

But today this place

Looks different

We will leave our youth

A sense of innocence

For what lay ahead

We hold each other

Not one word was said

We fall asleep

Catch our rest

For what lies ahead

Will surely prove

A wondrous test

The Blowing Lark of Winter

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Stay inside

There is a storm out there

Blowing winds so cold

It will shrivel your fingers

I am told

City in chaos

A driving ban

Amongst all of this

How could we plan

Just about one thing

I never seen anything

Quite like this

The blizzard of 78

Paled

When this storm hit

Apocalyptic winds

Hustle over the earth

Creating a sense of unknown

In darkness so cold

In the air you hear the raging sea

Even though the sea is

Nowhere near me

Or you

We stay locked in doors

Tight

Shaking

With the blowing lark

I am amazed at this

Horrified

And in awe

None of us saw this coming

None at all

But here is this storm

This beast

This apocalyptic creation

Bearing down hard

On the Hoosier nation

From Chicago

Down the South Shore

We have seen snow

And more

More more

Sleep well rested

While the buildings foundation

Is tested

We stay covered

We stay alive

This is the most violent wrath of winter

I have ever seen

The January winter

Of two thousand

And fourteen

Submission to Lake Michigan

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The Lake Effect

Has everyone upset

Blowing snow in

Blowing streets closed

Blowing cities into submission

All along the Lake Michigan

Outer belt

No winter before have we ever felt

This

cold

Liquid Lights

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Liquid Lights

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The polar vortex winter

What the heck is that

Where hot and cold intersect

Casting a spinner on the midwest

Over Chicago, Gary, and South Bend

The rust belt on lake Michigan’s end

A vortex

Sets 4 feet of snow on the deck

I am amazed at the violence this

Storm creates

Thrashing cars on highways

Like liquid lights on the road

It is unlike any winter I have known

Where the volatile winds blow

The crushing cold

Oh the cold

It seems unbearable

Stopping pumping engines in its tracks

Planes left running

On snow filled tarmacs

A smack

Of this winter vortex

Sets us spinning

Holding on to wheels

Less like driving

More like swimming

I hope to see the end

We just pull up a chair and watch

The true entertainer

The dropping thermometer

Watching it fall

Way below what I have ever known

Freezing finger tips instantly

With a frigid blast

I can only hope

This vortex

Is my first and my last

More than Bags

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Great discoveries happen

To those who wait

Create

Stay up late

I have found

Myself

Doing this often

Lucky it is

That I get more than bags

Under my eyes

But this frees me

Lets me connect

Whether it wrong or correct

This is when it happens

When all else is gone

Quiet

This is my escape

Through the Cold

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Oh we are trying to leave

Yea we’re trying to make our way

But we can’t

No we can’t no no  no

Lord we can’t

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Turnpike turned all white

These semis turned upright

Lord keep me away

From these wicked roads today

Driving around

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I’ve got time to burn

There is one thing I’ve learned

Holding on going on

Make my way through this song

I won’t take too long

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We shut lights out late

The snow won’t go away

Burnin candles in daylight

Makin’ me feel all right

In this winter cold

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Oh I know

Oh, yes I know

It will be alright

I’ll hold

I’ll hold you close

Through the cold

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Oh we are trying to go

Where this ole road, goes, rolls

Oh I know Oh I know

That’s there’s oh so long to go

With you

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When I turned seventeen

So long ago it seems

27 I’ll make my way

Hear what mom and dad have to say

Bout me now

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We are going to find a life

On America’s east side

Good friends left behind

This was the only time

To get away

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Turn-in the countryside

For those city lights

A studio with some clothes

Good lord we got to go

And make it big