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and so it goes...

Tramp Poet
Senior Member

since 2000-01-06

Posts 754
Could Be Anywhere...

0 posted 2001-12-21 12:28 PM

Extinguished

Outback; chilling winter wind
on the handicapped ramp
where we smoke at work.
Was struck by the plight
of discarded cigarette
driven wild by the gusts.

Rolling, bouncing, erratic
past the big blue dumpster
with it’s plastic corner flags.
Over the collage of black lines...
residue from the blacking of boxes
that became Halloween walls.

Brown butt in the air
it lost some of it’s cherry
hitting, spinning against the wall.
Abrupt change in direction
it went south with gusto
only to skip east once again.

Forced just to the edge
of seam in concrete pavement
rolling to the lip of deep, black hole.
Teetering, teetering, teetering
flailing like a tightrope walker
tipping, tipping...slipping.

Discarded cigarette driven
by element incomprehensible
without choice, plan or intention.
Forced into illimitable abyss
extinguishing light, assumed life
caught as the world spins on.

Tramp Poet:
once a scooter tramp
no choice about poet...

inot2B
Member Elite

since 2000-09-18

Posts 2205
Arkansas

1 posted 2001-12-22 07:28 PM

Sometimes I feel like that cig. Just rolling through life wondering where the wind will lead me and when it will extinguish me.

dena*mystrawberries2
New Member

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3

2 posted 2001-12-23 10:44 PM

tramp...how depressing...you just took all of the joy out of my breaks....;P

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

3 posted 2001-12-29 06:28 PM

And life goes on!!~Joyce

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

4 posted 2001-12-29 08:30 PM

See what could be avoided if they would only give us a smoking room indoors!?

Interesting reading, Daniel!

Tramp Poet
Senior Member

since 2000-01-06

Posts 754
Could Be Anywhere...

5 posted 2001-12-30 12:38 PM

thanks y'all!
odd what strikes one and motivates us
to write, eh?

Tramp Poet:
once a scooter tramp
no choice about poet...

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