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    Poems for All Occasions
    Poems for All Occasions
    Poems for All Occasions
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    Poems for All Occasions

    By Bill Dawson

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    Poems for All Occasions is a poignant collection of lyrical prose portraying the current state of affairs of being disillusioned by the American dream.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 3, 2014
    ISBN9781499063202
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      Poems for All Occasions - Bill Dawson

      Copyright © 2014 by Bill Dawson.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      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.

      Rev. date: 08/20/2014

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      CONTENTS

      Nothing Compares To You

      Soldier

      There will be a Harvest for the World

      Why you have to go

      Lost in the Wilderness

      Have you been making out ok?

      Angel

      Leaving Me Now

      If a Monster Comes in My Room

      As We Walk

      Let’s Talk about the Weather

      Please Send Me Someone to Love

      I’m, Going Down

      I Wish It Would Rain

      Black Like Me

      Somebody

      You’ll be a Millionaire

      If That Don’t Do… I’ll Try Something New

      Stranger At My House

      I Have to Sneeze

      Cold Inside•

      Ain’t No Love

      I Wanna Go Home

      If The Almighty

      Roses At Your Feet

      If I Was Santa Clause

      Daddy’s Home

      I Wanna Get Next To You

      Sitting on A Poor Man’s Throne

      Christmas will Really Be Christmas

      Why You Have To Go

      Night Girl

      New World

      Simply Beautiful

      Dear God

      Since I Lost My Baby

      One More Try

      Leave Me Alone

      What About Us?

      True Poem

      Betty On Crack

      If You Think You’re Lonely Now Wait Until Tonight

      Ain’t No Sunshine When She Gone

      Ball of Confusion

      Dedicated to my mom, Willie Dawson.

      NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU

      A t night I sit and cry in my lonely room,

      Wondering why you have to leave me,

      It just isn’t fair, Didn’t you

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