More Coffee (Choruses for Jack, Part One)

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We’ve’ve got time

or money

but never both.

How come?

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$20 cash

plan the day

on a half tank of gas.

I can make it.

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Funny how things line up

over and over again.

I guess her and I were closer

than I thought.

The same in many ways

some not so good.

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I would never have expected 

this here and now.

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We can send men to the moon

but the setting on the toaster

is never right

no matter how often you fuck with it.

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Morning...still dark...

too much booze before bed 

makes for lousy dreams 

on a restless night.

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The twitch

that comes when you pretend 

trouble ain't there

is back.

I'll call my trouble by a different name

with a different view

in a different light

and see if that helps.

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The girl next door

doesn't cry anymore

like she used too.

I hope everything got better for her

not worse.

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I’m told Little Bobby Lawn Boy

is mad all the damn time.

I don’t know what he’s mad about

but I don't blame him one bit.

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Do you think

for a moment 

every moment?

Try not too.............it's hard. 

To meditate is to find the off switch 

and stop the mind,

to write is to chronicle the chatter.

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The day is free for the taking, 

what will you do? 

More coffee.

Ken Owen,   Van Niddy Press,   February 2013