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Solid Iceberg Melting Cube |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533
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Breaching the soiled city, a crow beak's tweaking pinch of usable gut from road kill, I pick up two simple garments Jacqueline left behind on her graduation to state jail. Finding the correct department staffed by plump Andy Devine voice, (for the mean deputies roam the street). I knew him to be the purser on this Titantic we ride together. Aloft I see the staterooms/penthouses, around me steerage/streetlevel where the immigrants/disenfranchised ride. I notice a gift smuggled out on the plain white T-shirt; A single red hair from the head of my sparrow. I traipsed through the mud icinged sidewalk, heartened, knowing 3 days of rain ease her way in the non-airconditioned facility. She and 140,000 other men, women and children behind Texas' concertina wire. I recall our meeting, loud, crowded butcher shop for divorced, where a lazy hunter will await Wednesday, ladies night, and snipe a ripe one. She held my gaze, step one and our dancing clicked. Boisterous and bellicose, I decided to charm just enough to make carnel and then discard her. Handing her friend my license (how chivalrous), I took her home. It'd been awhile and I took it out on her, eliciting a high compliment from a woman 12 years closer to our prime, I'd worn her out. The next morning I came out of the bedroom to boot her and found her on the floor with Buster, my 19 year old cat. Blind in one eye, limping, who in his senility had become unkempt with matted hair. Even my kids who he preceeded thought him something out of Pet Cemetary and would have none of him. Jacqueline demanded a brush and I watched from my chair as at my feet, this Mary Magdeline stroked Love over and over this pathetic creature. With every pass she took on human proportions, every caress shed my resolve, each smoothing crumpled the paper thin intentions of the cold sexual shredder. We talked. She shared her story. Now her story's mine. [This message has been edited by RSWells (edited 08-30-2001).] |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
Very powerful stuff here, indeed. Enjoyed the read! ~Somewhere in my heart I'm always |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
oh, ho ho, you've been taken and taken hard===I love the outcome, truly!!! LOL |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
A single red hair from the head of my sparrow. =================================== She and 140,000 other men, women and children behind Texas' concertina wire. =============================== She held my gaze, step one and our dancing clicked. Boisterous and bellicose, I decided to charm just enough to make carnel and then discard her. Handing her friend my license (how chivalrous), I took her home. It'd been awhile and I took it out on her, eliciting a high compliment from a woman 12 years closer to our prime, I'd worn her out. The next morning I came out of the bedroom to boot her and found her on the floor with Buster, my 19 year old cat. =================================== Jacqueline demanded a brush and I watched from my chair as at my feet, this Mary Magdeline stroked Love over and over this pathetic creature. With every pass she took on human proportions, every caress shed my resolve, each smoothing crumpled the paper thin intentions of the cold sexual shredder. We talked. She shared her story. Now her story's mine. =================================== the saga of Jaqueline continues...and as before ...touches me deeply. somewhere a long the line, as I read this, I began holding my breath, when I got to the last line, I sighed... and now Im smiling at you-- for the outstanding poem...and for what I read between the lines. as before...I thank you for sharing... your wounded bird is one of your most giving muses. take care Richard jm PS...brillant metaphor and anology with the Titanic and iceberg references |
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Janet Marie Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554 |
forgot to put in my library  "Failure is not in the falling down ... |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
wonderfully told..and very touching in its telling. I do so enjoy your writing... |
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Temptress
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-06-15
Posts 7136Mobile, AL |
You certainly tell a riveting story. I enjoyed this from beginning to end. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Yes... quote: we can all come to grips with forgiveness when it is willing... |
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