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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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Poems 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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Poems 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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Poems by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 1, 2021March 4, 2021

Tell Tale Heart

Tell tale heart don’t you Tell your tales on me Don’t you see How it would all fall apart So don’t start My tell tale heart Hand of glory take your Hangman’s grip off me Don’t you see You can’t curse me You were beaten to the start By that bad old tell tale heart […]

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Poems by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 1, 2021May 10, 2021

Miss Molly’s Eye

I took my last penny And gave it to my dolly I plucked out her eye, poor Molly dolly Everyone has got to pay For their kicks as they can get ’em A penny for an eye A dollar for a life The price is not right The price is not right I held out […]

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San Francisco Song

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMarch 1, 2021June 5, 2021

The Man Who Fought Life

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 28, 2021June 5, 2021
Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 28, 2021June 5, 2021

The right pair of dark glasses

Everybody needs the right pair of dark glasses. People have things to hide. Baggage. Crows feet. Dilated pupils. Pin prick pupils. A black eye…or two. Yes everybody needs the right pair of dark glasses. My last pair were too big, they kept falling down my nose, a situation made untenable by wearing a mask. They […]

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Get your kicks on Highway 101, and Big Sur Sadness

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsFebruary 24, 2021June 5, 2021

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