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Open Poetry #13

A simple Man

JamesBowie
Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 252
big old Bangor Maine up by the shack

0 posted 2001-03-31 10:54 PM

at the gas station
the old man
has an easy face
only lines from smiles
content with his labors

some look down
at the man pumping gas
but if you raise your head
frome your low contemplation
you may finally see him

many years ago
as a practiced doctor
he delivered you
still knows your screaming face
changed though it has

as he wipes dripping gas
with his greasy hands
you cannot immagine
the magic
they once contained

as you pay him
he gives you a warm smile
but you fail to notice
because he is just
a simple gas pumper

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

1 posted 2001-03-31 11:41 PM

Great poem! Sometimes where we are now is not where we have been, but it is in fact a better place; loved the concept of this.

JamesBowie
Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 252
big old Bangor Maine up by the shack

2 posted 2001-03-31 11:47 PM

thanks mysteria- I always think of this when I am out delivering Shwan's food in a truck. People sometimes look down at you and don't realize who you are.

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

3 posted 2001-04-01 12:26 PM

Doesn't matter what kind of work you do - everyone is entitled to be treated with respect. Excellent poem.

Panne415
Member

since 2001-03-21

Posts 104
San Antonio

4 posted 2001-04-01 06:41 AM

James, Ditto everyones remarks - Very nice read. Glad I stopped here too. Panne
P.S. And Thumper said...?

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

5 posted 2001-04-01 08:32 AM

I liked it.
And maybe, just maybe, he is happier, now.
Peace.
Melton

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