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Until Our Next Kiss
by Leo Rhodes
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Street roots
Stars are everywhere
by William Adams
I once knew a co-worker
Who made me and other laugh
I once knew a co-worker
That wanted to be my friend
I once knew a friend
Whose craziness caused us to be best-friends
I once knew a best friend
Wanted to become lovers
But I had a girlfriend
Which I loved B
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And she had a boyfriend
Which I thought she loved
Early one morning I kissed her
The next morning she told me
“Our kiss felt like a dream...”
I smiled real big
Sucked in my gut, stuck out my chest, and replied,
“Yup Ig e t that all the time...”
I once knew a lover/best friend
Who made me happy
I once knew a lover/best friend
Who I missed when shS wasn’t around
But the thought of us getting together
Made me very happy
I once had a lover/best friend
Whose kiss was like a dream
She’s waiting for me Up above
And I’m pointlessly existing
Until our next kiss...
by Francis
There must be
within the confines of
man’s being all that lies waiting
but never once seeing
our gift of tranquility
that since hive not known
touched o r enlightened
as the one in humility.
Out of Place
by Sunnie Anderson
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the late hour is bathed in yellow city light
and the buildings are dark wadis
leading to cement streets
to cement flower beds
this deep and empty space
holding instead of water f
transient air mute noise black leaves
out of place in the low notes-
a ding-ding of a bicycle bell
and the chime of a child’s voice
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Stars are everywhere, how many?
Wait, I just thought of something,
Are they stars or actually other worlds?
Suns? Moons?
Who or what lives on those worlds?
Are they better off than we are?
I wonder if someone or something else out there
Is looking through a telescope
At the same time, asking the same questions.
Maybe they are thinking:
Ah, we got them beat by thousands of years.
They are so far behind the times. / .
Maybe a couple of those places oût there are just getting started though,
Are they able to walk on land yet?
Or are they smarter than we are?
Hey, maybe they are watching us through a telescope
To learn from our mistakes so they don’t repeat them,
Either way, as I look through this telescope,
Is someone doing the same? g
Juné 6, 2014