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January 2025 Collage Poem: Best Not to Know
If God is real he has blue blood and wears a tin star
Miles and miles of special polish slips between glory and modesty
Blue is hot and hot is cool
Not precluding the toy tin star.
Titillation...or just tits? Best not to ask...
I went to the Rio Grande a King, came back a cowhand,
best not to know.
Crafted chords stretch for miles. Make love to my soul.
Best not to as...
Friday 10th January 2025 3:53 pm
Fusion
He was hardly without vice
Beat women, blew cocaine
He was a true black genius
We won't see his like again
Hear the album Jack Johnson
Paean in a universe of black
The travails of a champion
Ring-craft his violent knack
Johnson brushed with cops
Neither of them were saints
Human pixels amid the mix
In the picture destiny paints
The albums are his ...
Monday 12th October 2020 10:48 am
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