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By Jack Joseph Smith
BEING
Be Cautious
I thought I saw Jonny Caucauous
On the 4th street of Anchorage, Alaska
I remembered down following the flats
for a future beer like a chase on the
past of a women you've never seen
In the dark we'd robbed a whore house
near Vancouver, but when the gutar sang
on every drunken morn, we had penutbutter
on the tongue of a sharred jar for breakfast
That's all as we ran down the coast to accost
the considered dead life through our adventageous world
We really only saw the wind as a way
After the Carnival didn't keep us off
the nice mountain county jails shingled ham
yet had forced the possibility of bad iron open
because of shaved heads and dubed lied eyes,
explaining their firm desire to go back turf
Easy to recognize
Blond and tight
Big enough to make being fast useable
The Levi, the soft thick shirt
The women made shoes that don't care,
while pretending to work but from the top
is of the mind in the knowledge of attire
Across the street I moved behind my lost sight
at first like assurance trusting the next step
to vision
Causious swaggerred at a pace that the street slow
could still remember, and he obviously had nothing
in his pockets, but eyes on a dream before me that
didn't drink
I touched him on the shoulder
After so many miles there were so many others
I shrank I did never to run around to see his
(face)
Casuse those who don't wander any longer,
even in Alaska,
always want our greatest ghosts
to make likewise at it again.