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In my office my hiccupping co-worker and I just got serenaded by a man in a purple T-Shirt.
His eyes were crossed, his jeans were acid-wash, and his tune was half-baked at best.

He asked first if he could sing to us, which was nice.
Other times I've been serenaded against my will by shirtless boys and air guitars.
Today he asked, and I said, "For how long?" He said, "For sixty seconds."
"Go ahead then."

He sang ...

Jim Morrison, The Severed Garden


Wow, I'm sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain
South
Cruel bindings.
The servants have the power
Dog-men and their mean women
Pulling poor blankets over
Our sailors

I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the tv
Tower, I want roses in
My garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
Must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud ...

High Rise

For me, it's impossible
to rise higher than this;

having courted the world –
embraced my ambition and danced
in the flames of those fires
I couldn't resist; pursuing the dream
with a prevalent passion.

In grimy back alleys,
home to the lost, I've sought out
wisdom born in the gutter -
not for a moment considered the cost,
while the raggedy army beckoned
...

Peaceful Exile

Turning folds of turquoise
let colour fade to purple
pools - rippling shadows strewn with silver
on the moonlit beach.

I let grains of sand flow
through a hand that once held a gun -
run through crashing waves that lap –
splash in wet caress, drown
in peaceful night. Sweet respite.

Laughter - voices
linger on waves and whispers carry
passion in the wind

...

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She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face; ...