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jeffrey robin
Poems
Sep 2014
old Sign
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The old sign
Above the dead dream street
ancient men gathered
Now
You move
Thru the dim lit haze
In awe
For the old sign gave you such warning
But you were young and did not heed
••
The bar is closed
As is the hotel up the block
Only a few crack houses show refuge
And the moans of the stale ****** who
are your only comrades
For yours is their game if not their trade
••
You remember your poet days
And how you laughed at the idealistic
Who spoke of mountains and such things
While you spoke of *** and exploits and
The exploitation they so inevitably bring
The Sign hangs and creaks as the wind blows
Above the bar that it once called home
THE SIGN !
You can't dare read it again !
You bundle up your years and move along
Everything seems to point at you / laughing heartily
You know it is not really so
But you and reality have long parted ways
••
All there is -- such loneliness
The old Sign swaying in the breeze
Is a story in itself
As you are a story in and of yourself
Of a humanity long since faded
Of a life so incomplete
Written by
jeffrey robin
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