Articles by John Patrick Robbins
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On My New Direction
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John Patrick Robbins is a barroom poet whose work has appeared in Red Fez, Spill The Words, Horror Sleaze Trash, Inbetween Hangovers, Ramingos Porch,Your One Phone Call, The Outlaw Poetry Network. His work is always a hundred percent unfiltered.
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How the Race Is Ran
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"...Maybe those words would affect someone who truly gave a damn..."
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No Hidden Agenda
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"...Love the chaos and hate the ordinary path..."
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Looking Back
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"...I never understood what I was asking for..."
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Grind
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"...how could I say no..."
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On Publication
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"...When in hell we create the art that is to be our escape..."
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Depression
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"...I wasn't letting happiness in without a fight today...."
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Stay Out of the Shadows
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"...They always find you when you are too flawed..."
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No Words Needed Today
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"...We cannot replace what is taken from this life..."
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Think About It?
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"...Smoke and mirrors fool most..."
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My Truth
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"...long nights alone just eat away at your soul..."
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Career Change
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"...Never claim to be crazy around a artist..."
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Dead End Dream
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"...Promises kill tomorrows and time exposes the flaws..."
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Last Rights and New Revelations
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"...because I'm just like all the rest..."
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Words Not To Live By
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"...Burn the candle at both ends and maybe burn a little something extra too..."
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I'm a Hound of Many Things
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"...I am often in a haze and seldom alone..."
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There's Always a Promise
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"...I felt no regrets or worries over tomorrow..."
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There Is a Fine Line
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"...My next tour will be fully financed but I never question by who..."
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An Open Letter to a Closed Heart
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"...I never stopped, I just can never stay..."
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Ode to the Mediocre
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"...I am never an outlaw, but I am a rebel to a lost cause..."
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Case Unclosed
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"...nobody could solve the mystery that he had created..."
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I Am Truly All Heart
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"...do you think using drugs would improve my writing?"
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Dear Kid
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"...I never claimed this would be easy..."
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Bourbon Trail
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"...a dash of water and bitter truths..."
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Pun
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"...soon to become an endangered species..."
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Tattoo
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"...Idols are for mantles and shrines..."
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Judas in Theory
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"...I desire silence over false praise..."
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Alcoholic Writers
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"...Would I repeat my choices if I had to start all over again?"
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Ode to the Backyard
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"...I am truly a literary renaissance man..."
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My Two Cents to Writers and Editors Alike
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"...two seconds to read and what seems like an eternity to craft..."
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The Definition of Liar's Poker
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"...in truth you're lucky to be holding a seven..."
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No Fools No...
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"...She handed me crazy in spades and happiness by default..."
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Stop, Was Her Sign
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"...Just how often can that woman truly be washing her hair?..."
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Within Her Paradise
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"...To now quench thirsts within her oasis ever beckoning promise..."
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Dead Are the Dreamers
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"Love is like a lobotomy..."
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No Olives To Branch
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"...I will meet you there, as I did promise..."
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Magic Fingers
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"...fragments in time perfectly in tune..."
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A Moment in Off Time
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"...As rain so shall wash the world anew..."
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I'm Forever the Ice
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"...As I allow you to fall..."
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All Scenesters Are on Crack
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"...I need false praise like I need the clap..."
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Nah Nah I'm Gonna Die Before You
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"...enjoy your ice cream and cookies..."
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Don't Forget To Take Your Happy Pills
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"... luckily the smell gave it away..."