More Driveway Poems:

two 's a crowd

When I drink Coffee
by myself
I am lonely
When I drink beer
alone
I am by myself
. . .

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I am never by myself
he is always with me
My father, not jesus
not allah, my father
Thomas Patrick Corcoran
and his father
Thomas Vincent Corcoran
and our fathers before
Us from Mayo
and before them
from Man and the
Norse and the Gauls
and Celts and their
fathers are my
fathers from
the Blue
Med
and their
fathers
from the
Dark
Continent
they are
my fathers
and they
are always
with me.