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Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Pursuing The Dream
Go quickly from this pagethere isnothing you will learn herewhich has notalready taken from youand distributedto the...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Between Those Lips
We know what passes, but do I haveTo lick, and first scent the labial blissThat arises, and folds on me when I passBetween...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
You Teach Me
I thought I was familiarwith the lost art of conversationWhen I hadforgotten in your presenceDesire speaks -another...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Ithacas
for any and allI will till and plough, let siftthe soil; demand fresh herbs,suchas coriander and thyme, besoftly scented...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
This Earth
What was I running fromwhen everything wasbeside meShaking at the thoughtof you, insideeach move I madeWhen I couldn’t...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Shifting The Ashes
I turn on the switch,for the kitchen light:nothing stirs.Your shadow at firstdark as space,fades and falls behind.The...
 
Dean J.Baker
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The Stupids
My mind’s a thread unwinding; Ipluck at darkness, which falls.It won’t let the stupids out; itsuffers them to bray and...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
At These Crossroads
Who knows how many lettersI could write you, andNever send: the totality of truthCannot be approachedProsaically, within...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Catalyst
I want the radio to speak,when music cannot listen;the heart keeping time,nobody knows who may be:alone and one at best.I...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Cousin Harold, and His Disguise
After careful consideration, and several yelling bouts, along with a smattering of battings about the head from Miss...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Close Call
I’m such a stumbling, mumbling clown,where the sure, deft touch of gentlenessrequires an artist; that you be not...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
The Idiots In Charge – 1
I was reading a book yesterday on public executions, to cheer myself up.When I first saw the book on the shelf at the library...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Bathurst Yards
Sprawled in this boxcar apartment,no one’s seriousthe disturbance temporaryThe end of the line,the lock breaks -the...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Hypocrite Lecteur
If I was in front of you, reading a poem, some prose, would you, having listened, say nothing? Doubtful, unless you’re...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Eternal Struggle
What smashes into my attention:first, your impatienceto get on with it; while, I’mthe instrument of doom or salvationI...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Drinking Hemlock
I shall not grow old,into decrepit loneliness; northe thousandplagues upon the way.I shall not becomethe bed-ridden ghost;...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Fat Albert’s Outpatient Folk Clinic – The Initiates
Boris wandered lost in the crowd, stifling yet another belch;knuckles sliding along the ground, shuffling towards his seat...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Dancing
Let’s lie beneath the sheetsthese days and nights; whereI surround you impossibly,touching me at my leisureOur purity not...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Pastures
Retrieve my spiritCleanse my soulOf what is lostTo my controlTake from meWhat I don’t knowShow me gentlyHere’s the...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Chocolate
Amidst the quarry and the shit, thepetty gravel pit; words not said, breathrestless and maybe not even a thoughtfor me,...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Sold
Not that you’d notice, butI just sold your soulYou aren’t using it, andit was always out of your controlWhen you next...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Meeting Irving Layton
1A briefI’d run out the front door of my home, with my father chasing me, obviously angry.It was a snowy day, late...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Meeting Irving Layton
1A briefI’d run out the front door of my home, with my father chasing me, obviously angry.It was a snowy day, late...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
If Love Were A Crystal
I would see through you, before the mirrorshattered all over me; giving quick cutswhich bleed internally, slipping into my...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
As If A Stranger
As if a stranger,that’s it:no more nor lessHow I want to makelove (we’d call itscrewing, elsewhere)There isn’t...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Dysfunctional Dominion 2 – Toronto, the Duh
So Toronto again is going to cut services, raise taxes, and generally play pocket pool with itself without so much as a...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Dysfunctional Dominion 2 – Toronto, the Duh
So Toronto again is going to cut services, raise taxes, and generally play pocket pool with itself without so much as a...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Dysfunctional Dominion
I understand the concept of equality, and thus inherent democracy, but never have come to grips with the apathetic attitude...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
Dysfunctional Dominion
I understand the concept of equality, and thus inherent democracy, but never have come to grips with the apathetic attitude...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
October Apples
If I walk the long dayout and into evening, perhapsI shall find that secret placewhere we are hiding- no? Well,you fed me...
 
Dean J.Baker
Dean J.Baker posted a blog entry
My Space Assholes: Cowards, Liars and Violent Sheep
Several years ago, when I first started posting my poems as a tribute to my father, having lost him and two other friends...