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    Less Time

    By Matt Trusskey

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    Poems of Midlife, Memories and Letting Go
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456606848
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      Book preview

      Less Time - Matt Trusskey

      978-1-4566-0684-8

      Midlife

      You're in Midlife When

      You go to the store to buy a magnifying glass

      To pull a splinter out of your wife's foot, alas.

      Your midday nap becomes a requirement

      To watch the evening news and dream of retirement.

      Your youthful thoughts and pains of the heart

      Become aches of the body and joint pains smart.

      Your daily desire is no longer to get laid

      But to get the house note timely paid

      Your current memory begins to fade in less time

      And you need sticky notes to remember a rhyme.

      The highlight of your day is out for dinner

      To celebrate the removal of a big toe splinter.

      Pirates All

      Stone tavern smoky and dark

      Wine and pewter cups abound

      A salty mix of smells drift

      Her supple ruby lips glisten

      Through long curly chestnut hair

      Voluptuous wild hips

      Spin round and round

      Soul dizzy with passion

      Forgetting humanity, reality

      Fevered music accentuates

      My intoxication, then…

      We find each other

      I reach to caress and kiss

      Her sweaty velvet skin

      Slower, then faster she moves

      Hidden passion exposed

      Her hands lacing my hair

      Clutching my fiery head

      To her breasts

      Volcanic lust compels us

      Into the shadows

      Then I take her

      And she loves it!

      If

      If you heard me,

      Would your ear turn silent?

      Yielding to loud storms

      Wind swept and violent.

      If you spoke to me,

      Would your tongue go dry?

      Desert raindrops fall

      Squeezed from life's eye.

      If you touched me,

      Would your fingers rot?

      Touch the soiled earth

      Dig a child's burial plot.

      If you befriended me,

      Would your soul wane?

      Go ahead, try to live

      For joy and for pain.

      If you loved me,

      Would you shut the door?

      All we could have is

      Much and ever more.

      And if…

      Aftermath and Science

      Psychedelic explosions of pastel greens laced with yellow tips

      dance on my eyelids in a purple sky.

      Lying

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