Category Archives: Poetry

Bobby B BADD By Peter Nolan Smith

January 28, 2023 – 8:52 am

Gather round my friends And I’ll tell you a tale. About a young man no one knew so well. A drifter dropping off a southbound train. Happy to be out of Amarillo. Bobby B BADD A beat-up black suit covered a scarecrow body. A hundred and fifty-four pounds soaking wet. He bent over to a […]

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OH LUCKY MAN

January 4, 2023 – 2:35 am

OH LUCKY MAN Seven come eleven Praying bones shaking in your hands Seven come eleven Come out and party in the garden Roll on the green of luck Seven come eleven Never boxcars Twelve apostles is as bad As snake-eyes Always whisper its name Bad luck loves a loser Loaded dice too I only throw […]

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New York Desolation – Poem November 30 1976

December 11, 2022 – 9:25 pm

A last kiss through cold steel bars Accompany your parting glance Our worlds, met and joined Drift away in this final act Your steps echo off tunnel walls Becoming your last trace And they too vanish under the roar Of the subway that gives you escape In that moment I call out desperate You don’t […]

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COLD SKIN IN PARIS

December 11, 2022 – 12:09 am

COLD SKIN IN PARIS The top-floor room’s only window was open to the winter January slashed my bare skin I rolled closer to Mirabelle The blonde mannequin had stolen all the duvet. My hand reached over the mattress I pulled the cover over us Her skin was cold as the gray dawn of Paris Below […]

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Lucky’s Night 1955

December 6, 2022 – 11:24 pm

Lost another job today And my empty pockets don’t help Can’t say the future’s mine But the past wasn’t mine too. So as always I’ll live on account Jamie was there the night I rolled 300 And all she managed to say, “It musta been fixed.” Leaving me all alone. So I took the prize […]

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