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Astro
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since 2003-01-08

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0 posted 2003-11-26 05:34 PM

Children’s Verse

Daddy let me use plastics for play-time!
Tonka trucks stuck
With Play-Doh in the tire well
But I can make them fly
With just a twist of my wrist.
Wow! How things go so quickly
-- Toys, I mean.
Time is different.
It takes 24 months to make one Christmas
And I have a lot to go.

Daddy let me use plastics for play-time.
Maybe I can use wood.
Brother graduated; maybe I should!
I’ve seen the tool shed,
Surrounded in metal sheets,
A retreat for grown-up arts
And crafts to be explored.
Electric sanders, circular saws,
Lumber and steel.
I think I’ll use the hammer and nail.

I found tools for play-time!
Thwack! Goes the chime of my labor.
A nail here, some wood there
My art is a hazard of random objects.
I saw Daddy once use core-gated tin
For roof-stuff. I can use it again.
Now I have a house for dolls to live in.

They found my art from play-time!
They’re shouting and throwing their hands.
Flashes and microphone vans
Record my every notion.
They call me genius and
In a flurry of paper motion, my toys
Are taken away – placed in another home.
There’s yelling for more
And I mourn the work of my hands.
I’m in such high demand.
Wood feels rough to me and I’m not old enough
For the sander.
Where did I go wrong?

It’s amazing how things go so quickly.
My toys were never meant for living.
They took them away and asked for more.
I never meant them for living.

Sight is an always awful beginning

GG
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since 2002-12-03

Posts 3532
Lost in thought

1 posted 2003-11-26 08:20 PM

wow this had me just reading along and enjoying and then cought me and made me realise the true painful irony of it!
...I wanna just go back to playing again, its so unfamiliar now.
This is great.

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

2 posted 2003-11-27 11:09 AM

What an awesome read.
So much here...
in fact, I'm placing it in my library
to read later...

Well done!

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2003-11-27 11:45 AM

Astro,
Well done, enjoyed.

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