Ennui

It's such a
Bore
Being always
Poor.

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Suicide's Note

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.

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Bad Morning

Here I sit
With my shoes mismated.
Lawdy-mercy!
I's frustrated!

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Deceased

Harlem
Sent him home
in a long box-
Too dead
To know why:

The licker
Was lye.

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Wake

Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red --
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead.

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Sea Calm

How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
For water
To be so still that way.

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Bouquet

Gather quickly
Out of darkness
All the songs you know
And throw them at the sun
Before they melt
Like snow

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Final Curve

When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left

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Personal

In an envelope marked:
PERSONAL
God addressed me a letter.
In an envelope marked:
PERSONAL
I have given my answer.

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Acceptance

God in His infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise

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