Tag: Steven Meloan

The Last Time by Steven Meloan

The Last Time They say there’s a first time for everything but it’s really the last times that matter your last kiss your last sunset your last time making love all of them gathering conspiring unnoticed unremarkable until their true meaning emerges and then at the final moment when some longed-for truth comes rushing in …

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Home Coming by Steven Meloan

Home Coming A homecoming… returning from whence you came a mother’s midwestern town a war-hero memorial Five states in three days at 90 MPH mile-after-mile past corn fields metal grain silos glistening in white-hot heartland sun It was… the land of Superman of the “decent people” Simple clapboard houses always set back nowhere to stop …

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Awakening by Steven Meloan

Awakening I once worked with a guy who wanted to be a songwriter he knew I’d done some recording had even been on the radio He said he needed more classes… in lyric structure in composition in theory I thought… No, you need to wander the destroyed city streets See the suffering the beauty the …

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