David Michael Jackson

Take All of Me Billie Holiday

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Oh Billie

I can hear you in the train as it

cries out in the night

Chicago

Memphis

New Orleans

Oh Billie

I can hear you in the

way my memories fall in  little

pieces on the stair

Oh Billie can you make that horn player play

Don’t explain

Take all of me
Take all of me
Take all of me
Don’t leave anything behind
Don’t leave anything behind

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david michael jackson

Socks in the Corner Poem

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My brain is tired

the left side

in the front

the part that thinks

it’s in charge.

I drink the bottled water and try to

make the other side say that it is there

that I don’t have to add things up

that the socks in the corner will be

fine for now

that it all didn’t matter anyway

but the socks in the corner

need washing

and they lie there staring at me

like dishes

 

 

 

david michael jackson

He Folds His Words into Pastry Shells

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He folds his words into pastry shells
and bakes them at 98.6
for as long as it takes to type these words
then he reads these words
and makes changes until
just maybe
for a moment
you can see the line in the water
and the float
bobbing
bobbing
THERE
it disappears
a strike!
It’s gone
and you grab the pole
and yank
and just maybe
for a moment
you remember.

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It Is Not Enough Poem by David Michael Jackson

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It Is Enough
By David Michael Jackson

it is not enough to say that I miss you
it is not enough to say that the world didn”t line up with flowers when you died
nothing will ever be enough
nothing will ever be enough to say
to do
time will not help
it is enough
to say that time will not win
it will not win
it will not win
the moment will win
the meaningless passing moment
the single note of the violin
passing into the air
then gone
gone
gone
if that is the only victory there is
then that is
victory
my friend
my dear and sweet
and wonderful
friend

Copyright © 1997 by David Michael Jackson,
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