Kevin Cummings: Two Poems

Failing

I never paid much attention in physics

But after a couple of beers

And remembering that man was capable of the atomic bomb

And landing on the moon

I stumble out the door into the night

Trying my damndest to piss on the stars

Failing Miserably.  

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I left the car on empty

Walking the half mile to the tracks

To watch the boxcars,

Cutting the horizon in two,

I dreamt of places,

Of stories told in miles.

You told me to run from this place

I swear I’m trying,

But I haven’t left;

Afraid there’d be no home

To come back to.