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Stolen Dominoes

from Hear The Muses Shine (2021) by Dan Frechette

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Stolen Dominoes

There's a poet in the gutter
where lies never hide
where the saints never visit
and the words never die
now the lost may wonder
will time be on the side
of the lonesome dying poet
whose masterpiece survived.
Are the highs of life worth the life of lows
for the poet in the gutter
with his stolen dominoes.

Banished to obscurity
repaid with scorn
the night fire warms his
crisis reborn
October tomorrow
and he writes of wings
on tarnished papers
of the Hobo Kings
and the Spirit Doctors
share in this game he chose
with the poet in the gutter
with the stolen dominoes.

He breaking and he's shaking
and the light is losing ground
another morning dawned
with no new hearts around
in the impartial city
he crafts a new sunbeam
to guide the dead through darkness
that only he can see
so he takes his words to comfort him
against a world he can't transpose
of the poet in the gutter
with his stolen dominoes.

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from Hear The Muses Shine (2021), released March 10, 2021

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