Frye Boots Calling, Part 2: Bye-Bye, Small Frye’s

I rescued them from a terrible fate. Who else was going to do it? The quarter was in my pocket anyway; what good is a quarter? I knew someone had loved them, once. Maybe someone would love them again. God knows, I already did, but we just weren’t a fit. For a quarter, I was [...]

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Not Your Baby

I’m okay I’ve never been helpless I’m not the baby Anymore   Don’t worry I don’t need saved I’ve made it this far On my own   I’m all right I never asked for Not your baby All alone   Don’t worry I’m okay I was your baby Not anymore

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My Bat

I must confess You give a chill To flutter by my head Your inky form Causes a thrill Of shudders in my bed   I will admit You have a way Of mesmerizing me With jerky flight I’m hypnotized By something I can’t see   I can’t deny I long to know What calls you [...]

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One of the Shes

One of the Shes She’s got it so bad She’s counting the seasons She’ll take to be had She’s one of the Shes He’s leaving behind He’s giving her notice But taking his time   One of the Shes She’s falling in stride She’s counting her reasons She’s standing in line She’s one of the [...]

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Intellectual

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” –Janis Joplin

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Waiting On Him

She waits Counting hours Days Weeks She’ll wait It’s been a year now She’s waiting For him   She stays Counting fears Doubts Assurances He’ll stay For all those tears now She’s staying For him   She hates Counting signs Red flags Hunches She hates them There are so many Waiting On him

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Frye Boots Calling

She saw them first. She always sees them first. I stared at the rows of over-used shoes, dismal looking in their states of seen-better-days; walked-over heels and cracked leather, if lucky enough to be leather at all. Most bent and arched with the inner imprints of someone else’s feet, the weight of their bodies and their [...]

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Be True

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.–Janis Joplin   Don’t listen to those who say, “It’s not done that way.” Maybe it’s not, but maybe you will. Don’t listen to those who say, “You’re taking too big a chance.” Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by [...]

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Just Be

  Today. Begin. Everything You’ve worked for Imagined Dreamt Longed after Mourned   Today. Now. Whatever You had pictured Envisioned Slept on Chased after Sorrowed for   This day. Stop. Whoever You’ve projected Pretended Posed as Run from Scorned   Today. Just live. What are you still running from? Waiting for? This is not a [...]

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The Why

There is no understanding “Why”. Trying to comprehend, with a compassionate heart, the incomprehensible; the compassionless. It will make you crazy.  All that needs understood is more stark and brutal than I like to be, but it is the truth still; there are people in the world who cannot be filled or satisfied. Ever. The [...]

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