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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

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Knozz Moe King

Knozz Moe King

People say he died young

But sixty-two

Sixty-three

Sixty-eight  

Isn’t young

For a poet

Poets are born old

Then age like cheese

Philosophers age more

Pensively and most are ambidextrous

Poet practitioner dreamer scrutinizer

Light heavy crawling flying

Swirling

He took it where he found it

Or where it found him

Then it dropped him

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