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Lyric an' the Plageur
Scott Whitby, 2025 Lyric says say it like this... Egoless, no ruin of my life anew Songs of angels and dancing Songs of when my life is...
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Feb 91 min read
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The Funeral
Scott Whitby, 2025 Caren's words for Caren I'm mad sad today I do not know how I'll do this ...or if I can I will though I promised and I...
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Feb 91 min read
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I love one person
Scott Whitby, 2025 I love one person, maybe another. Wait. I just thought of more. I guarantee you though, there ain't more than ten or...
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I don't know
Scott Whitby, 2025 How long you gonna wait? An hour or so You think she'll show? I don't know What if she don't come? I think she'll show...
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Hungry
Scott Whitby, 2025 Mom went on an airplane to see her folks in Wyoming. I stayed with Daddy during the night, my aunt and uncle during...
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Cacklin'
Scott Whitby, 2025 I got a chicken to sing a song and make some eggs All my prol'ms gone It's cacklin' but there ain't no eggs I sit and...
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Sometimes
Scott Whitby, 2025 Sometimes I couldn't think We're alone, both standing But I can't think of what to say So...no there's nothing I...
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We got nothing
Scott Whitby, 2025 We got nothing now But we've had nothing forever Just a blanket and this land This dry creek and this sky These bird...
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Some poems I can't
Scott Whitby, 2025 Some poems I won't, like about my brother's last days Dead babies of course My best failure and my parents' divorce...
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Pink People
Scott Whitby, 2025 This place I live, a tomb's tomb The people know me (so they think) Cigars and cigarettes? No! (I wish)...just whisky...
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Where you from?
Scott Whitby, 2025 Where you from? That place where it was hot and painful like nothing ever Where they fought and yelled...things I...
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Greenie's Song
Scott Whitby, 2025 Is that you? Are you the midnight blues? Are you a fine old thing? ...or the final thing? No! You're the girl I left...
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Feb 91 min read
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Theism
Scott Whitby, 2025 I was making cookies. Mae showed up. For the hundredth time she asked "have you ever made salmon in an air fryer?"....
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Feb 91 min read
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Woodshed
Scott Whitby, 2025 When I was a boy, the woodshed was a bad thing, a bad place. We didn't have one except metaphorically but it's where...
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Feb 91 min read
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Do you see me?
Scott Whitby, 2025 Do you see me? I'm shouting and jumping and waving my arms I'm not like you! Standing there quiet with suffocating...
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Feb 91 min read
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Music begins
Scott Whitby, 2024 At first, I couldn't even hear the sound. It was there, just the same as later when I could, but my ears were deaf to...
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Dec 19, 20241 min read
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My cross road
Scott Whitby, 2024 I found my cross road Ain't nothing here Finally I found it, but now I'm scared I crossed alot of bridges It was a...
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Dec 19, 20241 min read
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Haints
Scott Whitby, 2024 I've one last haint At the door hovering He's a monster I'm not and he's drooling I'd fought and died again and again...
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Nov 18, 20241 min read
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colors
Scott Whitby, 2024 sunrise colors in the spaces - so many and they are all so bright then they drain one by one, leaving only the black...
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Nov 18, 20241 min read
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If you don't care
Scott Whitby, 2024 If you don't care that the sun sets      Why would I even look? If you don't care that a bird sings      ...
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Nov 18, 20241 min read
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