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While buds are waiting to renew, a long and nasty winter reigns, its chill is sweeping through the plains, for spring again is overdue. Bare branches linger in a queue that's filled with nature's growing pains; when sunshine overcomes its chains the vernal season will debut. The psyche of the world relies on seasons changing right on time; without our seeing sunny skies we feel abused by Nature's crime. and finally with cold's demise we bask in glowing warmth, sublime. 
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How did I get here? I'm sitting at this old Kansas bar, reading the liquor labels, Malibu, Skyy, Patron, knowing no one, listening in on mundane conversations. It's the same every night, a new spot, new faces, new music, I feel their eyes upon me, the stranger in their midst. Someday I may fit in. I hope, while I wait my turn in the singing rotation, that I'm not unknowable. 
Throughout the asphalt inner city core, the struggles for attainment and success are hemmed in clutter and the crowded floor, the fear of losing driven by noblesse. The workers in this hive with deft command can navigate the paper and the pace, they know that only rested minds can stand the pressures of the job and making chase. On weekends these marauders slow it down, they make their way to open space, withdrawn from paper jungles or the tux and gown, and search for solitude and dreams foregone. 
Suitably quiet, he succeeds in blending in, quite invisible, while he waxes nonchalant. Indeed, he'd rather be anything but recognized, just another sapling camouflaged by the forest. Every now and then he is freed from his cocoon and shows brilliantly his talent for spectacle, as crippling stage fright releases its hold on him ever so slightly. Whispers become raucous songs, telling the world, "Look at me!" 
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AuthorJack has published over 350 poems in his career, many accompanied by his own photography. He specializes in a view of the commonplace and Americana. Archives
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