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At My House

The past is screaming from the basement
telling me it knows the score
While I’m wrestling with the present
in a tangle on the floor
So I can’t let in the future
knocking loudly on the door
Who I know has come to ask for
more than I ever gave before

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Kirk Lumpkin is a poet, spoken word & performance artist, lyricist, environmentalist activist, and California state certified Naturalist. He is the author of the poetry books In Deep and Co-Hearing, as well as three poetry/music CDs: The Word-Music Continuum, Sound Poems, and the soon-to-be-released Wild Flowers of Collaboration.

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