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Mexican Street Children
Repentances, the night after:
children of obscurity
from dusk to dawn,
Mexican street children,
they still have scars
inside the sounds of them.
Empty Budweiser cans, used condoms
newspapers scattered,
cancer sticks, ditch weed,
seeds and buds,
poetry and verse
lie dormant on the antique
oak wood floor
apartment above the bar,
Mexican music playing, 1:30 am
an open door.
Abandoned with their sins
and steps away with
their lives.
Michael Lee Johnson is a poet and freelance writer from Itasca, Illinois. He is heavily influenced by:
Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and Allen Ginsberg. His new
poetry chapbook with pictures, titled From Which Place the Morning Rises, and his new photo version of
The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom are available at: Lulu.
The original version of The Lost American: from Exile to Freedom, can be found at:
IUniverse. New Chapbook:
Challenge of Night and Day, and Chicago Poems, by Michael Lee Johnson:
Lulu.
He also has 2 previous chapbooks available at: Lulu.
Michael has been published in over 24 countries. He is also editor/publisher of four poetry sites,
all open for submission, which can be found at his Web site: Poetry Man. All of
his books are now available on Amazon.com:
Amazon.
Borders: Borders. Now on You-Tube:
You-Tube. Audio Mp3 poems available; open to interviews.
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Email: Michael Lee Johnson
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