big words / mean no thing / it's a feel ing in side

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& so / i shelter my self from
not / this body / falters/ ill.ness
a gain / / float thru the days of
can't remember / & honest lee


i can't remember / / / & a week of june
rain has pound ed the garden / flat /
oh yes the lupins lay up on the lawn
cover ed in aphids / & the columbine
blooms @ the bottom end of the stalk
now / long gone flowers now point ed
seed pods /

yes / the garden guard changes / once again
here come the fox glove / once a gain / here
comes the peonys / & the lilies



grass grows high er / i believe it's got some thing
to do with the rain / i believe / it's got some thing
to do with all the thunder & lighten ing / / /


this eve of / long est day of the year
& i am cold / in layers / even during the height
of / yes / it's that time of year a gain / when
the sky is st.ill / blue ing @ 11 @ nite


oh / morning star is not that far a way from
mid night /& when i sit up late @ nite
sudden lee a waken ed / @ 3 am / 4 am / 6 am
all these times / up up / i get / go out side / sit
smoke / all these nights & i wait for /

this time of year / all year / i wait for


this time of year / & i can't be in " it " enough
to satisfy the urge of / this is what keeps me going




@ 10 : 25 pm / i see / the crest of elephant mountain
some where down there / in the town / some where
down there / i lost my soul / a gainst the crest of the
sky / edges / all ways on the verge / of some thing


& it's summer a gain / do you know that