Ben Partenay Poems

I found love on breaker beaches
on city streets filled with strangers
on nights that spun with drunkenness
and later on forgot
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The rain falls and David will not win today
While his sign screams “Save the Trees”
And everywhere the world is go, go, go
And the sky is rain, rain, rain
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desks sit in rows
like prison bars
next door a telephone
sings hurry songs
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And in the orchestra of Withrow Park,
I’ve searched for meaning in the violins.
Within the strings I’ve held my breath,
within the breeze that tosses scarves
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forgive the little things
that hold no consequence
like the
cold feet
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And I,
The traitor that I am
Have not a promise kept,
Nor have the birds flown backwards
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When every word is said and done
And silence meets its fate
When all the songs are cried and sung
And time decides to wait
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sunset crashes down
on houses, I hear voices
of the day around me
the alarm clock from
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They have said, I have heard
it spoken now, I am obsessed
can’t stop talking, death, about it
this time, if not one it’s another.
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inevitably
you feel
yourself taken
into it all
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