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b.costen
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since 2003-11-02
Posts 107
ontario, CAN

0 posted 2005-01-23 10:25 PM


i discover train tracks
under the kitchen tiles of your discretion
going west to east
across worlds of life: full force insanity
i rip up the floorboards
we sit and wait for the 10 o’clock

you start to cry
i go see where the basement goes
a dream that knows i'm afraid of discov—

a lot of greyness, a lot of no de-tail
rails with no end
kids with no futures getting braver by the night
friends, catholics, anarchists
racists, fat, insecure friends
with holidays for freedom
and living for 'em starved as hell

cellar door, i see light through the cracks in the wall
a shadow beneath the lit part of light
that invites distraction, invites a dream

zooming down the wooden lanes
i need to run back, to get out of bed

underground greatness:
a birch becomes a highway of dirty kids
stifled fear, static layers
int-rf-r-nc-



© Copyright 2005 ben costen - All Rights Reserved
davidmerriman
Member
since 2003-04-30
Posts 123
Dallas, TX
1 posted 2005-01-24 03:51 PM


i don't know why, but your writing intrigues me. honestly, it's not very good, but i sense that you have something, something that leaps beyond conventionality that isn't mere drivel. i recommend that you keep at it, that you read an extensive amount of literature so that your leaps are successful.

i don't respond to too many poems on here, but i feel that you have something, so there you go.

Juju
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since 2003-12-29
Posts 3429
In your dreams
2 posted 2005-01-24 10:46 PM


I liked this alot. I loved the metaphore and the tone you presented. I found it intresting how the metaphore you used, I feel both ways about getting to know some one and a strange basement. I enjoy the style and the flow of your poem. I think structurally your poem was sound. But I don't understand the last stanza, so I can't critasize you on any thing else. Perhapps I will come back tomarrow when I have mind.

Juju - 1.) a magic charm or fetish 2.)Magic 3.)A taboo connected woth the use of magic

The dictionary never lies.... I am magical (;

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