Dark Days and Dangerous Nights

By Jack Freestone

The author began writing poetry when he lived in Paris in 2015. This is his first collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jack Freestone
• Release date: Feb 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201247249

Jack Freestone

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Book preview

Blind

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We are a ridiculous collection

Of beautiful and ugly

We don’t know what we are

Or where we came from

We pretend not to know

Why we use violence

Why religious people

Kill those 

Not in the same clan

Why a man

Beats his wife

Why women

Have rape fantasies 

And husbands want new girls

Just a lot of noise

And misunderstood thoughts

As we occasionally

Bump into walls

Waiting to be Discovered

A drunk girl squats

On my overgrown grave

Unaware

Of my life longer despair

Her lip service

Gives me hope

And she even lets

A ripper fart go

Into the air

All power and pride

As she considers

The beauty of the moon

My cold white bones

Rattle in expectation

Of a slow golden