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A Kitten’s Nursery Rhyme

June 13, 2025 

In the vagaries of time 
When Al Green explores your mind 
Just a kitten’s nursery rhyme
Of a single chorus line 
Where the dancers hope to find 
Another dream of wealth and wine

All of the hippos at the zoo
Have got a pebble in their shoe
And the trickster’s happy crew
Is eating crocodile stew
The unicorns are dancing too
With a song that's just for you 

I found a refuge in your eyes
Refreshment under rainy skies
Where my stupidity is wise
You were too sweet to realize
Out of a world of better guys
You really thought I was a prize

by Richard W. Bray

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There’s not a wrong road or a right road

May 23, 2025 



You did the things you did
And here is where you are 
The future pulls us forward
Like the engine in my car

Since you were a kid 
You've been wearing out your luck
And now you're feeling empty
Like the gas in your truck 

There’s not a wrong road
Or a right road
There’s just one road to live
What you gonna take?
What you gonna give?

You can't fix the things you broke
Can't take back what you said
When your dreams go up in smoke 
You gotta make your own bed

The world is changing every day
And you can do it too
You can build your own road
You can create your own view

There’s not a wrong road
Or a right road
There’s just one road to live
What you gonna take?
What you gonna give?

by Richard W. Bray

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It’s not that I don’t care but the pain is only there

May 21, 2025 


don't ever 
say how i am feeling 
cuz i'm safer not revealing 
life is gonna hurt me
and the world is gonna 
dirt me

It's not that I don't care
But the pain is only there

the piano tried
to tell me
but i didn't wanna
smell me
swept it under the floor
cuz i couldn't
take any more

It's not that I don't care
But the pain is only there

so i'll open
up the door
just a little bit
not more
since you showed
me yours
and there isn't
keeping score

It's not that I don't care
But the pain is only there

by Richard W. Bray

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Hope and Feeling

May 4, 2025 

You don't have 
To follow trends
If friends object 
Then find new friends

We carry hurt
From days gone by
But you can look it
In the eye

Every day 
Is fresh and new
It doesn’t have to
Shackle you 

Now is time for
Hugs and healing 
Don’t be afraid of 
Hope and feeling

by Richard W. Bray

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Let sober be your superpower

April 19, 2025 


You can tweak your neurotransmitters
Every single day
You can live inside a bottle
But the pain won't go away

You can obey your ball and chain
But it isn't very sane
Missing out on all that sunshine
There's such a better way 

Let sober be your superpower 
In control and not so dumb
Clean and free and unencumbered 
Many happy days to come

Building life around addiction
Crashing cars, constructing fiction
You'll always be a victim
When you're crawling in the haze

Quitting’s hard but drinking’s worse
Don't live your curse inside a hearse 
The choice is yours if you accept it
Wake up fresh and seize the day

Let sober be your superpower 
In control and not so dumb
Clean and free and unencumbered 
Many happy days to come

By Richard W. Bray

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The Tyranny of the Therapeutic

March 27, 2025 

I’ve been seeing my psychiatrist
For thirty-seven years
We've almost cleaned up
The mess between my ears

I'm passive-aggressive 
With an abnormal brain
I got second opinion 
And it turns out I'm insane

I'm neurotic and psychotic
With an overactive id
I've got as much self-control
As a four-year-old kid 

I'm masochistic, melancholic
And I can't match my sox
I spend my free time 
Inside Skinner's Box

I'm egocentric, schizophrenic
And crazy till the end
I'm on every single page
Of the DSM 

My personality disorder
Is self-actualized 
And my alter ego
Is just one of the guys

My inner child's an old soul
But I'm still Jung at heart
Regression and depression
Haven't stilled my manic heart 

by Richard W. Bray

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Drowning in resentment on an endless doom scroll

March 17, 2025 

Milton was right 
We make our own hell
You won't find salvation 
In a wishing well

Drowning in resentment on an endless doom scroll
Thinking a mirage was gonna make your life whole

You weren't living a life
You were playing a role
Searching your feed
For a new heart and soul

Drowning in resentment on an endless doom scroll
Thinking a mirage was gonna make your life whole

Leaching off the shadow
Of a fancy façade
Staring into the void
And mistaking it for God

Drowning in resentment on an endless doom scroll
Thinking a mirage was gonna make your life whole

by Richard W. Bray

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If somebody’s disappointed I don’t really give a damn

March 9, 2025 

Cool sunny days
Unavoidable delays
Men in orange shirts
Keeping people safe

I'm alright 
I know who I am 
If somebody's disappointed 
I don't really give a damn 

Losers from hell
Ain't got no mental health
Complain complain complain
About everybody else

I'm alright 
I know who I am 
If somebody's disappointed 
I don't really give a damn 

Respect your neighbors
Try and love your foes
Know what to hold on to
Know when to let go

I'm alright 
I know who I am 
If somebody's disappointed 
I don't really give a damn 

by Richard W. Bray

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You can’t go back to nothing even if you thought it was something

March 5, 2025 


You can't go back to nothing 
Even if you thought it was something

You can't resurrect
Something that was 
Never alive
I got myself wrecked
Too stupid to suspect
It was a lie
The dream 
I thought I had
Was so much worse 
Than bad
How could she ever
Love another guy?
 
You can't go back to nothing 
Even if you thought it was something

She stomped 
On my head 
Left my body 
For dead
Half frozen barely breathing 
In the snow 
That's when I knew 
The love 
I thought was true 
Was just 
A dilly dally 
Do-si-do 

You can't go back to nothing 
Even if you thought it was something

by Richard W. Bray

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duped, dumped and damaged

February 20, 2025 


I've been dumped 
I've been damaged
I've screamed at slamming doors
Every man's a demon
I can't take it anymore

Decimating dreams
With their underhanded schemes
You can't avoid their stankage
From Omaha to Anchorage

They learn it
From their mothers
Who never taught them right
And their two-timing daddies
Out carousing every night

Decimating dreams
With their underhanded schemes
You can't avoid their stankage
From Omaha to Anchorage

I've been duped
I've been ghosted
I've heard a million lies
Dirty slimy scallywags
What is wrong with guys?

Decimating dreams
With their underhanded schemes
You can't avoid their stankage
From Omaha to Anchorage

by Richard W. Bray

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