Coffee Shop Prophets Part XIII

“Worth”


[Originally Published — March 2011]


Days actin’ like nights

come and go

like unjust profanities

casual and vain

historically ridden

like a good mama joke

translated by Google’s dead beat daddy.

Not quite easy

not quite contemporary

but the only one you wouldn’t trade for money

in a half-lit room without authorities peaking

crying for exposure

tempting to exist

are all the things worth saying.

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