Category: memories
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STANDOFF excerpt 8.28.19
Crushed Cigarettes Left on the Floor I met her years back in a local tavern A bar, a pub, a gin spot, liquor room And she followed me home without speaking Without asking, without knowing who she was or From where she had come from or going to Her arm draped in mine holding A…
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STANDOFF, bit by bit
Standoff is a book of poetry and short stories. I will be placing posts here as I go. It is published and available at Amazon. You can also buy it directly from me by visiting one of my websites. Questions? I’ll be happy to answer them. Oh, if you buy it from me it is…
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Sunday heading towards Monday.
So, it is Sunday 7/21/19 and I am trying to write a short story, finish a true crime novel, submit some poetry for publication, and more…..much more….too much more. Plus, good grief, I haven’t filed my taxes yet for 2018. So, what’s new with all of you? Anybody got a Hamster for a gift present?…
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2300 hours on April 4, 2019
I have no real title for this message. So I chose the time and date. Thinking====I do that sometimes. Sometimes I don’t. When I don’t I regret it. I am sure that has happened to all of you as well. I have a newsletter that I am posting my poetry to because I have come…
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Colonoscopy
Warning signs! Bad Omens! Well, the morning started out hungry. Had gone a day w/o food. Packed up and headed to the site for the colonoscopy and it was drizzling. It went from drizzling to a full blown rain storm. Then we came across a single car wreck with the car sitting on its ass…
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Where did the year go?
Another year moving into history. Seems strange. I am still in January. Well, for Jan and I it has been an up and down year with moving away and then moving back when we discovered that “friends” weren’t friends and that the VA doesn’t have the medical facilities in Georgia that we thought they had.…
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The Never Meeting of Lovers
The Never Meeting of Lovers I never met you in the past I’ll not meet you in the future I won’t meet you today Such is life; such is the nature of our souls But we can sing together We can sing about our love If we ever meet and should casually hold hands While…
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I Recall Your Hand in Mine
It’s two o’clock in the morning And I recall you lying nearby me In the dark sweating there from lovemaking In the long ago in a town far from here It’s two o’clock in the morning And I can smell your hair As it was crushed up by my face And we laid there sweating…
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In the Dark
In the Dark Copyright 2018 Gordon Kuhn, all rights reserved Like a dog in heat he was single minded in his searching While he roamed the empty spaces nearby ocean waves that crashed upon the shore The sea fog coated the land and hid him from the safety nearby Weakly hunting a place…
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The Drunk on the Corner is
THE DRUNK ON THE CORNER IS Copyright 4.15.18 by Gordon Kuhn all rights reserved. The holy drunk on the corner is As holy as the Pope who drinks wine And who represents a group with a history of crime That turned its back on the Jews and friended Hitler The holy drunk on the corner…
THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN 