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Best Poems From
B.. ALEXANDER
('81)
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Crying In Your Wedding Dress
The roads always run wet this time of year
Not with rain - with tears
Crying in your wedding dress
Tearing your hair out
The park was always freezing-over around now
Not with winter - with the pain
Of pulling off your ring
Screaming your lungs out
You wore that dress for 16 hours
You wore it too long
You wore it when you arrived
And you wore it when you woke up
I wore my invisible jacket
My invisible trousers
My invisible smile
All day
On our wedding day
The prototype for this event
The blueprint of this heart-ache
Is sketched so deeply in my mind
There was no other way it could be
On our wedding day
I was walking, drunk, stumbling
You were crying in your wedding dress
I was gone, I was never really there
You were crying in your wedding dress
I was broke for any feeling
You were broke for any hope
Crying in your wedding dress
On our wedding day
(2008)
B.. Alexander
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Nov.4th (Anniversary)
A fog is spilling into these streets again
Like smoke filling the doomed house at night
And the chill is doubling day by day
And the ice on the road creeps this way
Unlivable, it was unworkable for too long
So, the powers that be; they took a chance
And spoke the words that I couldn't say
And stamped the hope with a date and time
The silver skies that were suspended
Clouded up with those freezing fears
That letting go, into that all-unknown
With only a bottle of beer for peace
A year ago we talked, then turned and walked
Beyond the furthest point we'd been before
And into new arms, you were promptly caught
And into a drug, I tossed my heavy heart
There were Christmas-coloured lights in the street
There was ice on my windshield each morning
Frozen tears that I bled under my bed at night
Lamp light and the warmth of caring friends
Anniversary
An anniversary of change
We don't celebrate
We don't gratify the date
Anniversary...
An anniversary of change
(2007)
B.. Alexander
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I'm Still Waiting...
Throwing away another spent calendar
I'm tossing another slice of my heart into the wind
I'm still waiting...
I feel all I have known is the length of this wait
And all I've been doing is biding worthless time
And still waiting...
What difference has it made to me, this waste
What have I gained so far for my blind patience
And still waiting...
Oh, nine years... nine years!
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
But I don't know what for
I'm still waiting
Is it for you?
On this moon-lit beach
In this silver-soaked bay
Cliffs hung over me and you
Oh, please tell me it's you!
Tell me it's you!
(2009)
B.. Alexander
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Dirty World II
It's happening again
The storm is come
In my dirty mind
I'm not finishing anything
Not going through with anything
Sick of porn
Sick of flesh on flesh
Everything I see
Is something going into something else
My body is on auto-pilot
My mind is blacker than ever
My heart has hollowed again
My world lit now, even dimmer
Heavy distortion masks every song
Smoked glass in front of every photograph
'Beautiful' is just a memory
Art is just a daydream
My real dreams are just fantasies
Of tearing her clothes off with my teeth
I don't even know her name
But she is sweating
Eyes-closed and alive
Oh, it's a dirty ****ing world...
It's happening again
And I don't know how to stop it
Everything I see
Is something going into something else
A dirty ****ing world
All I know to see
Is something going into something else
(2008)
B.. Alexander
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