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    The Lollapalooza
    The Lollapalooza
    The Lollapalooza
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    The Lollapalooza

    By Victor Compton

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    A book of poems by Victor Compton, an American Writer resident in France since 1981. An example :

    And, You Were Mine
    (for Hélène)

    This room is yours forever.
    You slept in this bed and died there
    Like a candle gently burning out.
    You left us with gentility and discretion.
    We didn't even know that your last sigh
    was your last. Your going was the
    essence of polite withdrawal from
    the Fete of Life. You didn't wish for anyone
    to notice that your Soul was crossing
    dimensions or for us to be sad that
    we could not follow. You left us without
    fear or fighting and told me the afternoon
    of your departure, "You were the great Love
    of my life," though we had been divorced
    for fifteen years. I could only reply, truthfully,
    "and you were mine."

    copyright 2011 by victor compton

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVictor Compton
    Release dateMay 17, 2011
    ISBN9781458195593
    The Lollapalooza
    Author

    Victor Compton

    I am an American male, 62 year old songwriter, poet, novelist and painter. I have lived in France as a "starving artist" since 1981. I became a naturalized French citizen as well, in 1991. I live right on the English Channel, where the weather is mostly, cold, rainy, and windy, BUT very atmospheric. Think Bronte sisters. I pass all my time in creative pursuits.

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      The Lollapalooza - Victor Compton

      *****

      The Lollapalooza

      and other selected poems

      by Victor Ray Compton

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Cover by Paul@freedigitalphotos.net

      *****

      PUBLISHED BY

      Victor Ray Compton on Smashwords

      ISBN: 978-1-4581-9559-3

      The Lollapalooza

      and other selected poems

      by Victor Ray Compton

      copyright 2011 by Victor Ray Compton

      SMASHWORD EDITION LICENSE NOTES

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may

      not be sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this

      book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each

      person you share it with. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it,

      or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to

      Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting

      the author's work.

      *****

      Table of Contents for The Lollapalooza

      *****

      01.__ When Beauty Refused

      02.__ Neither Could I

      03.__ If You Dare To Disturb The Universe

      04.__The Lollapalooza

      05.__ We Should Be Together

      06.__ Time Does Not Cease

      07.__ Regrets

      08.__The Spraglum and the Mambalam

      09.__ I Saw Natalie Today

      10.__The Sun Is Golden

      11.__ They Are Running

      12.__ The North Wind

      13.__ The Time Keeper

      14.__ They Used To Be Wealthy

      15.__ The Nudists

      16.__ Poetry Never Makes Money

      17.__ The Queen of Tragedy

      18.__ A Beautiful Place

      19.__ Hello-alo!

      20.__The Medicine Men

      21.__To Where Life Is Lived

      22.__ Pieces of Herself

      23.__The Scout

      24.__Man Seeks Woman

      25.__ My Heart Is Not At Home

      26.__ Mumbo Jumbo

      27.__ Eternal

      28.__ I've Written You A Letter

      29.__ Drinking Alone

      30.__ Where Is She Now?

      31.__ Narcissus

      32.__ And, You Were Mine

      33.__ Feed Your Head

      34.__ I Left You To Go And War With Time

      35.__ The Factory

      36.__ The Marriage Fence

      37.__ The Universe

      38.__ 4:00 A.M.

      39.__ Et Cetera

      40.__ The Puritan

      41.__ Blue Pollution

      42.__ For the Love

      43.__ California Faces

      44.__ From France

      45.__ America's Wounded

      46.__ Drinking and Whoring

      47.__ Cyclops

      48.__ In My Imagination

      49.__ If Words Could Heal

      50.__ If I Seem Changed

      51.__ Ongy and Gongy

      52.__ Savages

      53.__ Signals

      54.__ Teacher

      55.__ The Hive

      56.__ The Kingdom Of When

      57.__ The Music

      58.__ The Purple Wurple

      59.__ The Sun Is Golden

      60.__ Thinking of You

      61.__ Better Than A Gun

      62.__ The No-No Man

      63.__ Someday, I Will Read You Poems In Bed

      64.__ Piffle and Wiffle

      65.__ Writing

      66.__ Where?

      67.__ When She Was Gone

      68.__ When Rita Sings

      69.__ The Masochist

      70.__ Pastoral

      71.__ Your Beauty

      72.__ Writers

      73.__ There Is A Man

      74.__ Beautiful Sleep

      *****

      This book is dedicated to Hélène Diguet Compton (1947 to 2010)

      and Leonard J. Spielberger

      my staunchest supporters and constant friends.

      01. When Beauty Refused

      I kissed the Queen of Death today

      once, upon her beautiful lips.

      And groaned as she caressed my face

      with her all knowing fingertips.

      Then, I heard her whisper softly,

      "Though I love you, I cannot stay

      for I have other hopes and dreams,

      which I must go, and kill, today."

      copyright 2011 by victor compton

      02. Neither Could I

      When accident and disease

      destroyed her mind and she

      could no longer remember

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