josh bones

i slept and i dreamed
out of the sun under orchard tree
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in my dreams i wept for the things that
would never be
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the becoming
running
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to unknown ends like a teddy bear that talks when you pull the string
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and josh bones bears me closer to home
in his double wide
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like sterling silver rings
that come wholesale from thailand
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he spoke a mile a minute
for a hundred miles
and never said so much as a word
and josh bones was the world
the skin begins to look stretched thin over his
once young face