Tony Best Poems

It is a known truth
perhaps the only truth
that Nature fights
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dark, dying thoughts dance
across my mind like waves
rushing towards some unknown
kingdom. Butchers, assassins,
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Yesterday I saw a homeless man waiting for a bus.
He sat on a bench wearing winter clothes in the blazing
sun, facing a highway where cars buzzed from one oblivion
to the next. He spoke loudly to himself, as a priest performing Eucharist
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I must go tonight, said the
boy and never come back.
the night is blue-black, I
know too what is to be dark.
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