Manchester Parkade
Manchester, Ct.
Graffiti Art
© chuck a stetson 2012
Posted Shadow
Madison, Ct.
west beach
Hammonasset Beach State Park
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Johnny Cash Black
Another long night
listening to my heart
beat high and low
walking the line
stumbling
acting cool
overly hip
dressed in Johnny Cash black
Sunrise raise the curtain
you know I’m hurting
paroled at your path
transmitting contradictions
with crossed fingers
and please make you love me
I promise to read the bible
confess my sins
get high on hallelujah
pacts with God
I always make
Babe,
my faded-broken thoughts
are hovering
in a foggy destiny
stained in time
black & white
soon to be ancient history
remembered in sighs
and in the end
lonesome once again
speaking sounds of pain
I remain self-proclaimed
a fool
walking the line
dressed in Johnny Cash black
© chuck a stetson 2012
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Simple Curiosity
she flips
me off
& asks
her mouthy
sister
for a smoke.
I take
the TV remote
& click
at her
figuring
I can change
channels
you know,
watch a new show
with a silly lead
her comedy
refreshing
a real WOW factor
or something
I’ve never seen,
and all the while
her sister screams
beyond her iPod music
(loud enough
to rock out
Helen Keller)
hey diddle diddle
with your kitty in the middle
and for a moment
I’m lost in
simple curiosity.
© chuck a stetson 2011
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In The Darkness
head-voices interrupt
nighttime’s silence
my sleep’s pending forgiveness —
I try not to listen
a soft wind rustles the pines
crickets chirp a Dorian melody
I remember this sea chantey:
~repair the hull
replace the sail
the monkey wrestles
with the ghost~
and in the shadows
I’m breathing stagnant air
directing lost sailboats
into the ebb & flow
a cold warning —
of black ocean waters
surfacing high tide
in the thickening fog
lost, as the lighthouse
beacon dims —
I cannot sleep
© chuck a stetson 2011
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Bus Stop Waiting
main street
manchester ct. 2011
© chuck a stetson 2011
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NoHo Rhythm
today I’m a photographer
camera strapped around my neck
walking downtown NoHo
past timbales banging reggae rhythm
a ’57 red Chevy parked top down
in a counterculture oasis
the perfect picture forever
captured in my heart
© chuck a stetson 2011
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Night Deposit
her fat-breasted artist’s fascination
with the swirling indigo night
thickens over time & time again
as she inventories the stars
the numb moon’s flickered light
mostly staccato dabs on a cracked canvas
stored in the horizon’s night
deposit for another day
© chuck a stetson 2011
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My apologies to John Lee
boom
boom
boom
boom
I didn’t shoot you right down
knock you off your feet
take you home with me
bring you in my house
oh nothing like that
a-haw
haw
haw
haw
why you laughing at me
as I’m crying to you
up and down the floor
my baby talk
only whispers and jive
hoo
hoo
hoo
hoo
come on talk that talk
say something to me
anything at all
knock me off of my feet
oh you crazy thing
no
no
no
no
I beg you all night long
baby please don’t go
back to New Orleans …
shit
shit
shit
shit
that’s another song
© chuck a stetson 2011
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