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  June 2021     3 months ago

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Four Eternal Brothers of our Youth

Take a knife to strife.
Let’s go deep down memory lane.
Our heavy metal shows on your moms porch was never in vain.
We understood the pain.
We drank the filthy rain.

Was it the pale yet powerful madness from The Smiths that made us...

– by Manuel Santos, Jr

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Upon the door I knock

Dancing cliff with semi tears has no fears.
Emerald ocean tramples and devours but it will never concur the tiny shoreline.
The whiskey wind stumbles and falls.
Swinging sun fades and slowly crawls.
Ancient words annihilate and infiltrate like a...

– by Manuel Santos, Jr

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Before the Fade

I am sliding like lava.
Violently drifting.
Chaotically shifting.

I am drowning like frozen words.
Cracking under the dark years.
Petrified under limestone tears.

My heart slowing resisting.
Under a glass moon, I find
myself...

– by Manuel Santos, Jr

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Still I Glide

Softly out of time.
Still I rhyme.

Loudly dying.
Colorfully crying.

Magnificently frowning.
Upwardly drowning.

Quickly staying in place.
Still framing a youthful face.

Unearthed voices.
Avoiding explosive choices.

Blurry sun.
...

– by Manuel Santos, Jr.

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A Few Smiles More

You thought it was easy to breathe inside a self emitting star.
You did not realize, after so many self inflicted years, you would have drifted so far.

I can not feel the old notion of knowing how strong I once was.
For decades now, I've given...

– by Manuel Santos

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