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This book is a collection of poems that I have written and am slowly adding to.
Love as deep as a bottomless chasm -
Beware of where you tread.
Love as dark as an underground cavern -
Some things are better left unsaid.
Beware of what you let them know,
Of what you let them hear.
For though it is said in innocence,
Someday they will make you fear.
If you tread near the edge,
You are certain to fall,
Your 'lover' will make sure of it.
For though you may laugh,
Their motive is sinister,
Your heart will be split in half.
For they are unafraid of what you ever may think,
And that, dear friend, is the most dangerous thing,
When, of Love's ledge, you stand on the brink.
Love's Dangerous Ledge
BookRix makes one chose between a G and X rating, but JFK: Lines of Fire's content and language is really PG rated. JFK: Lines of Fire is a sequence of dramatic documentary vignettes culled from the literature concerning the assassination of President Kennedy. . Many of these found poems are dramatic monologues in the voices of people who had information about the assassination and either failed to prevent it or lacked a context to understand such information until it was too late. These accounts share certain emotional undercurrents, the need to act balanced by a sense of resignation, the shock of recognition balanced by a callous bravado. Whether or not Oswald acted alone or was nuts, there was (is) a wider insane acceptance of violence that (through these dramatic voices) provides an emotional context to this event. In this sense the real subject of this book is our American vernacular and the ways these themes are expressed in our speech. JFK: Lines of Fire was first published by PulpBits in 2003; PulpBits went out of business in March 2007, and I am happy to make it available here.
This book is a collection of poems that I have written and am slowly adding to.
Love as deep as a bottomless chasm -
Beware of where you tread.
Love as dark as an underground cavern -
Some things are better left unsaid.
Beware of what you let them know,
Of what you let them hear.
For though it is said in innocence,
Someday they will make you fear.
If you tread near the edge,
You are certain to fall,
Your 'lover' will make sure of it.
For though you may laugh,
Their motive is sinister,
Your heart will be split in half.
For they are unafraid of what you ever may think,
And that, dear friend, is the most dangerous thing,
When, of Love's ledge, you stand on the brink.
Love's Dangerous Ledge
BookRix makes one chose between a G and X rating, but JFK: Lines of Fire's content and language is really PG rated. JFK: Lines of Fire is a sequence of dramatic documentary vignettes culled from the literature concerning the assassination of President Kennedy. . Many of these found poems are dramatic monologues in the voices of people who had information about the assassination and either failed to prevent it or lacked a context to understand such information until it was too late. These accounts share certain emotional undercurrents, the need to act balanced by a sense of resignation, the shock of recognition balanced by a callous bravado. Whether or not Oswald acted alone or was nuts, there was (is) a wider insane acceptance of violence that (through these dramatic voices) provides an emotional context to this event. In this sense the real subject of this book is our American vernacular and the ways these themes are expressed in our speech. JFK: Lines of Fire was first published by PulpBits in 2003; PulpBits went out of business in March 2007, and I am happy to make it available here.