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The Other Ghost Arrives
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Nobody around
no gold found
a creaking sound
it’s a ghost town!
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Diana stands next to her corpse
that hangs from the tree
it sways back n forth
how’d this come to be?
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A haunted saloon over there
abandoned church down a tumble-weed street
faded-blue hotel over here
nothing but nothing for her to greet
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She steps thru the wall of the hotel
the jack rabbits high-tail it as she arrives
she swoops into the hotel cafe
no service here is about all that survives
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She sits at a table anyway
in her mind she orders a cup of tea
nobody serves her anything
and then across the street she sees me…
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(Copyright Clyde Collins 2012)
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