Roland John Purpose Poems

  • 1.
    We dress for mirrors,
    distance purpose, as we pause
    apprehensive before the glass
    lest it reflect a pose.
    ...
  • 2.
    They found him, as predicted, in the cove
    three days it took for the Atlantic
    to spout him up and leave him back
    as he was in life, washed out and finished.
    ...
Total 2 Purpose Poems by Roland John

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Life 3 Sea 2 Body 2 Failure 2 Long 2 Dark 2 Night 2 Single 2 Purpose 2 Slow 2

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(With apologies to the singer of the “Song of the Banjo”.)

I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone;
I'm beloved by the Legion of the Lost;
I haven't got a “vox humana” tone,
And a dime or two will satisfy my cost.
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