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Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)

Photo credit: Kenn Thomas

Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)

Euphemisms white wash his-story

So truth disappears under vague denial

Southeast USA above Florida

Sharing a border with Pensacola

Where the past lives on

In retrospective theme parks

The past is alive everywhere

Our world is full of museums

Memories gather into congregations

...

Wednesday 22nd January 2014 11:50 pm

"This earthly life is merely an embryonic prelude to a new awakening." Dr. MLK, Jr.

Blues Jeans

A shadow of disappointment

Settled around their earnest campaign

Like ominous clouds

The debonair Martin who emerged

From his Gaston Hotel room

Dressed in a denim shirt over his dress shirt

And new blue(s) jeans folded at the cuff

Ready to march as a one-man campai...

Tuesday 21st January 2014 4:14 am