Tom Higgins Poems

They can't put everyone in prison
So they've got us all on Prism.
If you thought we have democracy
Then why do they want to spy on me?
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I'm twenty three and just back from their war
With no idea what I've been fighting for.
I've not been myself since I got back
Trying to live within a panic attack.
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The icy winds blew from the North
The frost lay thick like ermine.
The cloak of earls swathed the ground
In a bleak land of plague and vermin.
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I never thought I’d live to see

Widespread food-banks in this country.
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I went fishing last night,
And once again I never caught anything
Except the wind on my face,
And the salt spray in my eyes,
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I now have two good friends who will never again be
The proud owners of their own personality.
A deep sadness bores deeply into my core
I really do not want this to be real any more.
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This year is gonna be your year
You're heading to the top.
You are gonna make it there
And you ain't gonna stop
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I am human just like you,
Arms and legs, two and two,
Eyes and ears, two as well,
And one nose with which to smell,
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Greedy people everywhere I look,
They brazenly hold their heads high,
And they see no need to weave or duck,
As their anti-morality they apply,
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I often seem to get lost,
On the internet, and there is a cost,
To me in time wasted, wandering,
Getting nowhere, just meandering,
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