Keith Charles Dovoric is a NJ-based singer-songwriter, musician, author, and educator. Mr. Dovoric began playing the guitar at age 12, merging music with literary pursuits to craft an individualized writing and performing approach that, thirty years later, bears distinction from the common fold of pop currency. Citing a wide swath of influences, from Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jim Morrison and Warren Zevon to Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus and Nelson Algren, Mr. Dovoric has performed throughout the NY/NJ region and recorded ten albums of original music. Despite his outre writing and reading tastes, Mr. Dovoric lives the picture of convention in nondescript suburbs with his wife and two children. Mr. Dovoric has published eleven collections of lyrics and poems; his latest and final, Rest, is purchasable now at Lulu.com.
The days are long and painful
The nights are long and bare
Those alleys, hard and brutal
Between buildings built with care
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Family is a battle of wills
An Armageddon before brunch
You took your chances now you pays your bills
Without a clue, without a hunch
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Whenever I come back here, I feel like a king
You give me all your roses and powder my wings
Like an angel
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It's like some rotten little joke
That your kindergarten teacher spoke
All of God's things get broke and it's we must fix 'em
The bones in your body, snapped in half
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He struts into the room
He drives away the crowd
He pierces you down with his stare
Your prayer screams right out loud --
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