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Old time ballad for the ones who can't be found by sleep

Clem Flowers

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Clem Flowers (They/ Them) is a poet, low rent aesthete, & dramatic tenor living in a mountain's shadow in Home of Truth, Utah with a wonderful wife & sweet kitty.

Dear Johnny
Dear Johnny
Come home to me
Dear Johnny
Dear Johnny
You're all I want
to see

Ache soaks every dawn
on another bitter sunrise
yearn for you Here
as life passes
me by

one more year &
then you'll return-
wrote me that
11 years today

I'm a ghost
in our home &
God only knows
what deserts
you roam

Dear Johnny
Dear Johnny
Come home to me
Dear Johnny
Dear Johnny
Set my soul
Free

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