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Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

0 posted 2010-01-27 11:52 PM

The green hands of the clock
say it’s five o’clock
in the morning.

Bones can’t see it
because he’s asleep.

Bones awakes with a start
to a pain across his shoulder blades.

The farmer has a belt in one hand,
and Bones hair in the other.

Bones is dragged off the cot.

“Get up you lazy piece of garbage,
get up and eat breakfast.”

Bones is led downstairs,
there’s sausage
and pan cakes
for breakfast.

Bones never had a breakfast like that
or any other type of breakfast
at Mom’s.

He thinks it might
be all right here.

After breakfast,
Bones is led out to the barn.

The farmer hands him a shovel,
pulls a big steel cart
suspended from a rail
above the trough behind
where the cows stand,
and tells Bones to shovel
the cow manure
into the cart.

Bones tries,
but the first shovel full
is too heavy,
and he gets the manure
all over himself.

The farmer has a switch,
and gives Bones a swat
across the back,
tells Bones
to be more careful.

Bones does better
with the next shovel full.

After the trough
is cleaned of manure,
the farmer pushes the cart
out to the manure pile,
and unloads it.

Bobby

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

1 posted 2010-01-28 08:49 AM

Sounds like the farm is n ot much better than the streets..Bones seems to get the short end of the stick, or shovel, in either place.

Nicely done, Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2010-01-28 10:04 AM

Thanks Balladeer,

I'm glad that you enjoyed the read. Thanks for the kind comment.

In private conversations with Bones, I have discovered that he much preferred life on the streets to life on the farm. He was somewhat out of place in the rural environment.

Bobby

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2010-01-28 11:22 AM

I don't know how much longer I can read of Bones' life. It makes me terribly sad. Makes me wanna take him in and show him that some people really are good.

It breaks my heart.

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2010-01-28 01:33 PM

Thanks dear Passing shadows,

For your kind words and concern for Bones. At present, Bones is doing very well.

Love Bobby/Bones

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

5 posted 2010-01-28 04:52 PM

Hello Bobby, this is a painful experience and something never to be forgotten, unfair and stupid. Thanks for sharing this piece of life.

regards

yann

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6 posted 2010-01-28 07:08 PM

Thanks Yann,

You have hit the nail on the head. It was very unfair and stupid.

Bobby

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

7 posted 2010-01-30 01:47 AM

Bones always seems to be up to his neck in the manure of life, no matter where he is, poor kid.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

8 posted 2010-01-30 02:23 PM

Thanks dear Ida,

That's the way it is for some folks. Life is very much a dice roll, and there's very little that can be done about that.

Love Bobby

viking_metal
Senior Member

since 2007-02-02

Posts 1337
In a Jeep, Minnesota.

9 posted 2010-01-31 11:56 PM

Life is rough, but bones had an especially rough one.

I'm no cook, but i'm fairly sure I know how to make waffles. Bones can come over.

Fall in love early, fall in love often.

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

10 posted 2010-02-01 12:15 PM

It brings back the stories of all the city children who were put on trains to live and work on farms because the parents just could not feed them. And that was here in the United States not somewhere in the eastern countries. We went though a lot of bad stuff here. I knew a woman who was one of those children. Most never did get to know who their familes were. Some did better than others.But Poor Bones hit the wrong family.

There must be a few books written about those days, I do read your stories Bobby. latrarrival

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

11 posted 2010-02-01 10:36 AM

Thanks Paul,

For the kind offer of waffles. Now you’ve gone and made Bones hungry, he is especially fond of waffles.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

12 posted 2010-02-01 10:42 AM

Thanks dear Latearrival,

I'm very pleased that you read my stories, and can relate to them. The "good old days" never existed anywhere, and still don't.

Love Bobby

Earl Brinkman
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since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

13 posted 2010-04-28 01:15 AM

These Bones poems sure are a treat to read. I feel sorry for Bones though.

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

14 posted 2010-04-28 07:51 AM

Thanks Earl,

I'm glad you like the Bones story. It was a bad time for Bones.

Bobby

[This message has been edited by Robert E. Jordan (04-28-2010 09:07 AM).]

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