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April 6, 2008

How many times the toothbrush

Filed under: derek davey, poetry — ABRAXAS @ 2:49 pm

How many times the toothbrush
Has scraped my pearlies bare
How many times the kick-drum
Compliments the snare

How many blinks the eyelid
Between the movie scenes
How many times have I forgot
The message in my dreams

How many times my feet have trod
On dust and grass and stone
The flexing of the tendons
The weight upon the bone.

How many strokes of beaten meat
And fantasies enacted
How many surreal partners
Pleasured forward, and then backward

How many times my heart has beat
In fear and joy and wonder
How many times will my chest rise
Before this flesh has done its time
And off my errant spirit flies …

How many times
will my soul find
These vessels
for these lessons?

How many times the sweetness
How many times the pain
How many times the sunshine
How many times the rain.

4 Responses to “How many times the toothbrush”

  1. san Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 3:03 pm

    maybe these lesson are not always for your own soul but for the souls of others …

  2. Stella Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 11:44 am

    wow!

    and..

    thank you.

  3. michelle mcgrane Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am

    fabulous, derek! thank you.

  4. Derek Davey Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks girls!

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