Only One Block Away
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Only One Block Away, A Poem About Creeping Mortality
Author: Luke Austin Daugherty
2-Up, A Motorcycle Poem by Luke Austin Daugherty
Most poems follow an adventure. This one preceded it by a few hours…
My ’82 Yamaha Maxim 750 didn’t let us down!
Bathtub Gin, a poem by Luke Austin Daugherty
Losing Feathers, a typecast poem by Luke Austin Daugherty
Copyright 2020, Luke Austin Daugherty, All Rights Reserved on words and picture
As always, thank you for reading and sharing my blog! I am an independent poet, author, and singer/songwriter and I have my own ebay business to keep me as flexible as possible. But, writing takes time and if you appreciate what I do, if you have been moved or made to think by my writing, OR have just enjoyed something on my blog, please throw a buck or two in my tip jar!
Your kind contribution may buy me a cup of coffee out at my next writing session. Click my easy paypal “tip jar” link that follows and THANKS! -Luke
Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax: Remembering a Homeless Street Hero 10 Years After His Death
A true street hero, Hugo Alfredo Tale-Yax, was stabbed and left for dead on a sidewalk in Jamaica Queens, New York after defending a woman (a stranger to him) from an attacker. Over 20 people walked by without helping him while he lay dying. He died April 18, 2010. Hugo was an immigrant to the USA from Guatemala. Let us keep his memory alive. So far as I can find via research, no one has ever been arrested or charged with his murder. If you have any information that could lead to justice for him, please contact the appropriate authorities.
I wrote this song, The Patron Saint of Jamaica Queens, in 2010 as a tribute to Hugo’s memory. He was a homeless man who gave everything he had to give, his very life, defending a stranger. The world is forever better because of his life and willingness to help others.
News clips and audio in the video used under the Fair Use Act.
Please share this video. I would love for his family to end up seeing it. The song itself is available for digital download at: https://music.apple.com/us/album/half-life/615843809
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Words and music by: Luke Austin Daugherty -Copyright 2010, All Rights Reserved Luke Austin Daugherty
Lyrics:
“The Patron Saint of Jamaica Queens”
V1. I didn’t wake up this morning and think that I would die tonight-I just thought I might find a soft place to fall- ’cause after all, we all need a place, but I have…
Ch. I have nowhere to lay my head- I have no place to go- I have nowhere to lay my head- I have no place to go…
V2. It’s cold and dark in Jamaica Queens, so I huddle ‘neath the lights of the street- I saw her in danger and frozen in fright- thought I’d be her angel tonight, ’cause I…
Chorus
V3. Sometimes a knife to the heart is not just a metaphor- some things are fair in New York that are not in love and war- and standing there they just watched me here- like I’m Jesus with no cross and no beard…
Chorus
Bridge: Am I a 3-D doormat underneath this city’s feet- a super hero with only the power to bleed- the man in white with no white coat or hat- losing the battle to the man in black
V4. So this will be my widow’s mite- I don’t have two coins, so I’ll just give my life and- Saint Peter meet me at the gates- I called for Michael to defend, but he was running late and I…
Chorus
A New Drug-Friday the 13th and Coronavirus (Typecast Poem)
A New Drug- Original poem by Luke Austin Daugherty, Copyright 2020, All rights reserved on words and picture.
As always, thank you for reading and sharing my blog! I am an independent poet, author, and singer/songwriter and I have my own ebay business to keep me as flexible as possible. But, writing takes time and if you appreciate what I do, if you have been moved or made to think by my writing, OR have just enjoyed something on my blog, please throw a buck or two in my tip jar! Your kind contribution may buy me a cup of coffee out at my next writing session. Click my easy paypal “tip jar” link that follows and THANKS! -Luke
The Coronavirus & Love in Motion (typecast poem)
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Original poem, typed with a Webster XL-500 manual on Southworth 24 lb. Parchment paper. Copyright 2020 on words and picture. All Rights Reserved: Luke Austin Daugherty
As always, thank you for reading and sharing my blog! I am an independent poet, author, and singer/songwriter and I have my own ebay business to keep me as flexible as possible. But, writing takes time and if you appreciate what I do, if you have been moved or made to think by my writing, OR have just enjoyed something on my blog, please throw a buck or two in my tip jar! Your kind contribution may buy me a cup of coffee out at my next writing session. Click my easy paypal “tip jar” link that follows and THANKS! -Luke
Midnight Cigarette: A Poem by Luke Austin Daugherty
Luke Austin Daugherty: Copyright 2020, All Rights Reserved on text and photo
Can’t Put That on the Grill: A Typecast Poem
Can’t Put That on the Grill by Luke Austin Daugherty, Copyright 2020, All Rights Reserved
Type-In Tonight at Oasis Diner! 11/20/19
Tonight, at @oasis_diner !! It’s Plainfield’s first type-in event!
I’ll have my own manuals set up for people to use OR bring your own. Come type, listen to good music, sip coffee, talk about good books, self-publishing, music, whatever! Attendees can put their names in a free drawing for several prizes INCLUDING a typewriter from my own collection! This is an all-ages event. The regular menu will be available. I’ll have some of my books and CDs available as well.
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