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adrift

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Cloud Shadow 25

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I’ve been lost in

these canyons

now

for a century or two

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Just floating a-

round with

not

much to do

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I’ve read all

my books

about one hundred

times each

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My spelling has improved

but I’m

a numbskull now

when it comes to speech

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My haunted old boat

has become

brittle

as over-cooked toast

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About forty feet a-

bove the ground

it can

barely still coast

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It has bumped into

the walls of

these canyons a-

bout ten million times

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Once more and it will

become nothing but

scattered

butterfly rhymes

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I have not grown wise

over the ages

just

plain numb

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If you were to ask me

my name

I would

just sit and look dumb

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These scrappy

desperado

canyons of nothing

but rocks and sand

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Have turned me into

the desert-bleached

bones of a

silent time-weary man

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A living

fossil

am

I

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Adrift

be-

neath

Deep Desert sky…

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Deep Desert Blues V

http://deepdesertbluesv.yolasite.com

by Rawclyde

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tulip

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     “Come in,” she sang.

     He came in.

     “Hi, Tulip.”

     “Hi,” she replied.  Under the faucet her hands worked with expert briskness ~ sweeping the dishes clean ~ also, incidentally, splashing soapy water all over the drainboard and floor.

     His hands, on the other hand, oh hands, carelessly but lovingly snuck around her trim warm waist.

     She nestled back with a hard slow wiggle of her bottom.  “When are we getting married?” she cooed.

     “Couple months,” he mumbled, intently watching her hands do an A-1 job on the dishes.

     Her head turned and she gave him a long lingering kiss.

     “You taste like hot sauce,” he whispered huskily.

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from

Road’s Cannon

a short novel by Rawclyde!

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Boy With A Hat’s awesome “Washing Dishes” poem

http://vincentmars.com/2015/12/13/washing-dishes

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photo

Mila Kunis

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repercussion

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Oh the repercussions of

what I have done

are haunting me no end!

cries out the soul of

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Town

Sheriff

Isom

Dart

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He slips the key into his vest

straightens the badge on his chest

throws open the jail-cell door

walks out into the morning sunshine

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There are birds chirping

a train hoots in the distance

a child is at play on the porch

but it’s all just the ghost town moaning

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Then a bullet sings thru the air

splinters the wall nex’ his eyelash

a foul burst of dust blurrs his vision

alas, this is not Memory Lane

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It’s

happening

right

now!

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Sheriff Dart tumbles behind a

rusted chunk of mining works located

just right for the occasion

3 more bullets slice the air

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“You shoulda never killed him, Dart!”

it’s a female voice

unmistakable

more lead smites and clangs

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“No more excuses, Dart!”

zip

zippitty

zippp

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How many lady friends did this feller have anyway?

muses the town sheriff

under the porch now

   digging his elbows into the dirt…

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(Copyright Clyde Collins 2012)

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vignette:

a poem from the thrilling wanna-be book A Ghost Town Called Love by Rawclyde! 

photos:

Raquel Welch & Jim Brown had staring roles in 100 Rifles an action-packed 1969 western…

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Walk like an Egyptian…

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After a while the people of Yuma, Arizona

grow tired of I, the old mummy,

wandering around town bumping

into things and getting in the way of traffic

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Plus my bandages have become yellow &

brown with crusty nausea fluttering

in the wind & dragging on the ground

I unintentionally cause 2 traffic accidents

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The police finally catch-up to me

drive me to the California border

point this tired old mummy toward

the dunes, ah yes, giant hills of desert sand

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It takes me two days to climb

to the top of a sand dune, ten minutes

to roll down the other side

& then I hear a bird-like female voice

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We make small talk until finally

I tell her, “I wish you weren’t

a creature of darkness”

she rips a rag off my face  “Ahhhhhhh!”

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And leads me to an ancient Egyptian temple

half buried in another dune

where she presses a button that moves

a slab & we step inside

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In a colossus vault painted with moving hieroglyphics

I finally find the lost goddess

or she finally finds me

   an overflow of bubbly joy causes me to collapse…

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(Copyright Clyde Collins 2012)

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Pulaski & The Bear

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Pulaski pitched his tent in a juniper grove

a bear crackfully approached looking for berries

the bear’s head was all nose & he was a big one

   “go away, bear, go away!” hollered Pulaski…

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The bear stood up ~ taller than the woodsman

who stepped back & hollered again, “go away, bear, go away!”

Pulaski backed behind the tent & backed into the bushes

where he turned around & ran 20,000 leagues in 40 seconds…

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He returned the next day with

a gallon can of red pepper that he threw

all over the ground &

   never saw his fuzzy-eared friend again…

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It was about this time that I met Pulaski

he was taller than most fellers & his strides were long

his hair was tied behind his head

   he waved hello reluctantly as he strode up the highway…

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(Copyright Clyde Collins 2011)

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