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Open Poetry #49

Losing Kenny

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

0 posted 2016-08-27 08:19 PM

Kenny Brown was never my mate,
but we played darts
the Sunday before he left.
I remember his jokes;
he was two years older than me.
Double top! He won a pint.

His mother was always immaculate;
high heels and perfect stockings.
The lorry killed her
just as it killed Kenny.

After Rowstock Corner
she never shed her dressing gown.
His stepfather said:
'I'll never get her back from this,'
and he was right.

Twenty one years of age?
His mother never came back.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2016-08-28 09:26 AM

Sad, sad almost to the breaking point . . . Just like his mother . . .

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