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    Value City: Poems and Lyrics
    Value City: Poems and Lyrics
    Value City: Poems and Lyrics
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    Value City: Poems and Lyrics

    By Larry Ragan

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    Value City shows Ragan is Everyman.
    What is most personal is universal, and he knows it.
    I feel twice as alive after reading his fresh, breezy poetry.

    -Singer/songwriter Derrick Semler, author of Headhunter:
    the Blues Odyssey of J. D. Nicholson and Lao Time
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 30, 2014
    ISBN9781496949103
    Value City: Poems and Lyrics
    Author

    Larry Ragan

    Larry Ragan is an award-winning playwright and journalist. His novel Hudson Man and poetry collections Songs Father Otter Taught His Daughter and Tweets from a Savage State are available from booksellers online and in your neighborhood. To find out more visit www.larryragan.com.

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      Book preview

      Value City - Larry Ragan

      © 2014 Larry Ragan. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 10/28/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4969-4911-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4969-4910-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014919145

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Mount Anthony

      Bouquet

      Season Ends

      In November

      Ice Buzzards

      Living Fossil

      Please Forward All Future Addresses

      Green Mountain Boys

      Magic

      Sister London’s

      Master’s Motto

      Aqua Vita

      Equation

      Keep It Kind

      Time Spins

      Same Dawn

      Value City

      Bread for Vandals

      Trout Music

      Northern Lights in the Graveyard

      Mile Marker 240

      Plywood Resurrection

      Bad Winners

      Downpour

      Chicken Coop Karma

      Victor

      Fountain of Youth

      Sermon on the Server

      Migration

      Legend

      Ancient Bride Secrets

      E-Z Zen

      Higher Education

      2²nd Reason Social Media Sucks

      Family Mask

      Lang Syne

      March Up North

      Strange Stars

      Too Happy

      Vachel

      Incarnation

      In Sickness & in Health

      Duck Dogs

      The Street Is a Hard Act to Follow

      How to Fish for Salmon with a Chevy

      Hunger

      Shoot until You Lose

      Stacking Light

      Coy Dogs

      Robert Lee Frost

      Unvarnished Rascals

      Mrs. Woodpecker’s Therapist’s Nightmare

      Fellow Fools

      Pirate Sunshine

      Naked Together

      Solstice Dance

      Hermit

      Apples&Opium

      Devils Den

      Late December

      Too Taboo

      Caribbean Groove

      Odd Blood Relations

      The Party Ends

      Railroad Track

      Flood Victim

      Last Call

      Three Wheel Momma

      Hold Tight Lisa

      Birds

      Born to Dance

      How They Play the Game

      T-Top

      Live the Dream

      Wing Beat

      Funnel Cloud

      Jukebox Tunes

      Win Place or Show

      Only Answer

      Gypsy

      Good News

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