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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 5, 2021

Mountain Lion Wind

Mountain lion wind Been whistling round our bed And I don’t know if it was something I said Or that cold mountain lion wind And I am back to where the sage brush grows And the light don’t fit me right Oh that mountain lion wind. Mountain lion wind Been whistling round my head And […]

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 4, 2021May 10, 2021

The Song of a Bad Daughter

The harvest was done And the threshing room was full And he sorted the wheat from the Chaff in the mill And by the light of the lamp he Worked through the night Until a stranger walked in and said “Do you know how to fight?” And when that stranger comes knocking Do you know […]

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 3, 2021March 4, 2021

Tanka. Juliet Rising.

Girl in black dress kissed girl in striped socks amaretto bravado under-pass passed-over them both disinterested in their amorous embraces

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 3, 2021May 10, 2021

Tanka: Aberdeen, Wa.

neon horizon crosses burnt electric jet fueled eclectic, some strange incense coiled thin smoke round brains

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 3, 2021June 5, 2021

Morphine Marmoset

Life is a drag race for the numb Chase down a taste Out comes the sun. Feed that morphine marmoset Until it gets as big as it can get Becomes the monkey that it always Knew it could become Hooked up to the chain gang land on your feet You’re easy meat For that morphine […]

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 3, 2021May 10, 2021

Go with the flow.

Go with the flow How high how low Can you go with the Flow? Water goes downhill Whiskey goes there too How low can you go with the flow Empty bottle blues You say “I need fuel not food” Just how low can you go with the flow… And I really don’t know how I’m […]

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 3, 2021March 4, 2021

Psychonauts and other Detritus

Love in the time of corona virus is hard enough. Everybody is forced simultaneously closer together with their immediate family for longer periods of time, whilst the minor cast in your own personal tragicomedy is cast out to a six foot perimeter, thus being both suffocating and lonely at the same time. A disastrous combination. […]

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 2, 2021March 4, 2021

Tanka: Give me real love not pretend.

By Harajuku eki she sat and wept, for all around her she was mirrored in an infinite procession both domestic and alien.

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 2, 2021June 5, 2021

Onion Rings and Angel Wings (Life on the Road)

We got lost somewhere around Los Gatos. The kind of lost you can get when you navigator has no idea how roads work in the USA, when you have no GPS, you are using the 2015 KOA brochure road maps as your only guide, and there is a shocking lack of pruning around signs in […]

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Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 2, 2021March 4, 2021

Never/For/Ever or how to mourn the living

In the picture you hid is a farm and a kid A time and a place you could fall into And inside the hall Is a mirror on the wall That’s recorded ev’ry fall And seen ev’ry time you got on your knees in vain Never/For/Ever In time This time And out in the back […]

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