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Alicat
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since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

0 posted 2001-06-14 04:40 PM

As I drive through the night
Illuminated by headlight
There's a man by the street
With no shadow 'neath his feet

Driving on a little more
Making sure I've locked all doors
There's a man by the street
With no shadow 'neath his feet

Five miles further in the night
I feel his mal'veint sight
By the man by the street
With no shadow 'neath his feet

The man by the street
Is in my backseat

I'm the man by the street
With a corpse in the backseat
And I'm sure he'll be a treat
When I need something to eat

Oh, won't it be a treat
When I'm found in your backseat

Alicat

*inspired by an original Twilight Zone episode whose name eludes me...*

[This message has been edited by Alicat (edited 06-14-2001).]

TheGreatMango
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since 2001-06-12

Posts 17
Louisana, USA

1 posted 2001-06-14 04:59 PM

o my stars...THats sucha lovely poem sir.
It gives me the "Scary Tails to tell in the DARK " feelign when i was a kid...O my thats such a wanted feeling.

Poet deVine

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since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 2001-06-14 05:02 PM

Yikes!! Glad I didn't read this at night!! I don't think I'll be doing any night driving soon..thanks Ali!!!

doreen peri
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since 1999-05-25

Posts 3812
Virginia

3 posted 2001-06-14 06:58 PM

AAAAACCCKKKKKKK!!!
*sweating* omigod!! a write of intrigue and terror which should be a song!!

put it to music, oh great Feline-One!!

hehe.... LOVED it!

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

4 posted 2001-06-14 09:03 PM

Geesh, Persnikitty.... I didn't know the "Twilight Zone" was still thriving....

LadyPeach1
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since 2001-06-04

Posts 282

5 posted 2001-06-15 01:24 PM

Oh my gosh, that is totally freaky! But wonderfully written! *spooky*

brian madden
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since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

6 posted 2001-06-15 01:50 PM

dinner is served. yummy. enjoyed the read.

"Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life". Terry Pratchett

Alicat
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since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

7 posted 2001-06-15 04:00 PM

Glad ya'll enjoyed the ride. You should hear the music I have for this one...it's very cheerful and happy, well suited for hopscotch or jump rope. And Doreen, someday, when I'm up North, I'll sing it for ya.

vlraynes
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since 2000-07-25

Posts 8229
Somewhere... out there...

8 posted 2001-06-18 10:30 PM

Alicat-
  lol...i love this!!
  i used to drive at night
  fairly frequently...but...
  perhaps i'll have to
  change my routine..lol.

  i used to never miss the
  'Twilight Zone'...thanks
  for the reminder and for
  the smile..

hugs,
~vicky

"...until you have read the verse on his
heart, you have not truely met the poet."
-vlraynes

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

9 posted 2001-07-21 11:34 PM

*shivers* Geesh..I didn't need this kind of chill here tonight, but I sure got one out of this!

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

10 posted 2001-07-22 08:08 AM

Well I said gross outloud so I think you got the effect you wanted lol..

good dark writing as usual Ali...

K

qtpieelmo
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since 2000-07-04

Posts 989
Sesame Street :) hee hee ,NY

11 posted 2001-07-22 11:56 AM

Hmmm this is kinda disturbing--lol--but i liked it

LOVE ELMO <3

Dulcinea
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since 2001-07-22

Posts 774
IN

12 posted 2001-07-22 12:15 PM

I'm glad I didn't read this before I went to bed! *Grin* Nicely done. *S*

DarkenedShadow
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since 2001-07-23

Posts 114
Kansas

13 posted 2001-07-23 03:21 PM

riiiiight. I can deal with this. Its kewl and all. I don't want to be munched on. /Nick/

Inanothertime
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since 2001-06-29

Posts 72

14 posted 2001-07-25 02:17 AM

you've done well!!! the show was great, and so is this!

Hellseyes
Member

since 2001-07-25

Posts 120
Kansas, USA

15 posted 2001-07-26 11:26 AM

wow wow wow ow ow wo woowowowo owwowo.../Drew/

Jessica

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since 2001-06-28

Posts 350
South AL

16 posted 2001-07-31 03:44 AM

This is the first time I have had the privelage to read your work. Very dark and intreuging.

Very nicely written...

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

17 posted 2001-07-31 01:08 PM

Driving midst the shadows,
Yet casting not into tomorrow,
There’s a ghost inside the post,
Put the body back in the trunk,
Before overtaken by the funk,
And you’ll shout when it taps to get out.

Gloom

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