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Prohibition Love

 

Damn abstinence

Speak easy

I fill my cup with you

I was a blind tiger

In jungle rot gut

Growling when dry

Purring when wet

 

Tame the wild beast

Kisses like lullabies

Sleep is deep

When the hunt is over

Bellies stuffed with love

Slumbers in tall grass

 

Declaw

File down incisors

We play like kittens

With a yarn ball

Cat nip our days away

 

Predator desire doused

Temperance is over

Lift a glass

Make a toast

To contented cats

In mewing conversation

Deity of Losers

 

In waning light

Steel brush the rust

Of the hollow edifice

 

Admit nothing

Behind velvet curtains

Lick green, Kiss gold

Molest the flag in public

 

Wipe your soiled make up

With red, white and blue

Kneel to investments

Bray dime store morality

 

We sing revolt

Under blankets and bell jars

Flashlight

Barely audible protests

Outside

Our rooms of comfort

Old Photo

 

Family bar-b-que

You leaning forward

Hand against my back

I am smiling, natural

 

I hated photo posing

You made it easy

Bringing out the me

I was not ready to share

 

You were that kind of guy

A what-you-see- is-what-you get

Unhidden quirks and faults

Made you lovable

 

How I miss the days

Of get togethers, bar-b-ques

Fresh cold cuts and rolls

Penny Annie poker

With little gained or lost

 

Not a mean bone in your body

I was safe to be me

In this game of high stakes

Full of wars and lost limbs

Days I was light the pot

 

You despised wild cards

But you took the hand

You were given

Dealt comfort and kindness,

Pennies from heaven

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