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Poems in C
by
Douglas L. Simmons
Copyright © 2005 by Douglas L. Simmons
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Cincinnati
Circles
Crashing Down
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Cincinnati
If I weren't here
I'd be in Cincinnati.
I'd be making love
to Green Eyed Patti.
I don't know how much more
of this old steel mill life I'll take.
I may not last another lonely day
here by the lake.
The money is great,
the weather's about the worst I've ever seen,
and I don't know a single gal up here
who's eyes are green.
Blast Furnace running red hot
molten iron down through the trough,
and I can't wait 'till three o'clock
rolls 'round and I get off.
I think I'll take that pick-up-truck
back home where I belong.
Sit on the porch with my guitar
and just sing myself a song.
I think I'll take that pick-up-truck
back home to Cincinnati,
and sit on the porch the rest of my life
with my sweet Green Eyed Patti.
Doug L.
September 16, 1981
Hammond, Indiana
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Circles
Everybody's holding hands
so they won't loose.
You can't find it
in the circles,
don't they know
you gotta choose?
Doug L.
June 25, 1973
Mainz, Germany
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Crashing Down
I can't speed up.
I can't slow down.
I can't back up,
or turn around.
The dice are tossed.
The cards are drawn.
I played the game;
became your pawn.
I can't give up.
I can't keep on.
I can't speak up,
you turn me down.
I thought your love
would last for time.
I thought your love
was always mine.
You flew me up
above the ground.
You flew away.
I'm crashing down.
Doug L.
Hammond, Indiana
1982
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