Down the road of whiskey I go
Persecuted for these prometheus perceptions
An Ex Patriot and a drunkard
Are a few of the names I've been given
A tortured Novelist and short story writer
Hopelessly romanticizing women
To open my closet of secrets
First you will have to find the Skeleton key
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Are these men not me ?
I have sipped wine in Paris
I walked the beaches of Cuba
Still paranoia mixes the Jack and Rose
Unappreciated while dieing but not when dead
I find myself in the corn rows of Idaho
A legend before his time
When they have heard what has happened to me
Let them speak about it in a simple poetic line
Let them say
He went out the Hemingway
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The Art of Abstraction
PoetryAbstraction is defined as the quality of dealing with ideas rather then events. This anthology of poems is my way of confronting ideas like love, depression, anger, and nostalgia.
