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lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho

0 posted 2000-04-24 05:22 PM


Enthusiasm flickered

enthusiasm hasn’t
flickered much sense the daz of yor I think
I’m going to dare the untold feat of performing an entire
unrehearsed medley verbatim planning a surprise the band
surprise the people even surprise myself craze common
alternatives drifted in framing the floors in flashy
sieved setups stragglers filtered through
the two balconies I sit in an
upper booth offstage loft
high above the wondering
eyes debating just late enough to
work up a charge of expectation as if I
needed it all that was needed now is the crowd
and the fuse would be lit and I’d be off in a lash and
they’d be part of it my lead vocalist’s cigarette quivers
to a spiritual rogued rhythm journey of its own
stuck between her two fingers she’s
anxious looking over my guitar
she wonders what I’ve
got stashed up this
satin sleeve of
mine as a vocalist
myself I was no slouch
and one could never know what
would happen when I opened my capacious
mouth and I never cared or thought to
think of guts or ruts or we would
have never made it thus.


[Part 2 coming soon]
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[This message has been edited by lucky (edited 04-24-2000).]

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Meadowmuse
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since 1999-12-27
Posts 3263

1 posted 2000-04-24 07:13 PM


I always find your writing interesting, Lucky...(looking forward to part2) I enjoyed the way you've written this scene.

~ Claire

 Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?......Henry David Thoreau

brandondinsmore
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since 1999-10-27
Posts 142
OKC, OK
2 posted 2000-04-24 07:18 PM


Truly, you belong among some sort of higher level writers...songwriters maybe.

I enjoy your writing and am not going to pretend to get some idden meaning out of it, because I like it that much.  I am pleased to see the things you write with such ease and skill, Lucky.

lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho
3 posted 2000-04-24 08:39 PM


brandondinsmore

Honestly I was waiting to see what kind of RE:'s I'd get on this as it truely comes from my journals. Times were, to say the least.., strange in those years.

Meadowmuse

Your kindo interesting yourself, I thank you.


 

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4 posted 2000-04-25 07:05 AM


Lucky~
I think your journey of enthusiasm
flickers yet.
Thanks for sharing ...
I go now to part II.
~*Marge*~


 ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Elizabeth Santos
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since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269
Pennsylvania
5 posted 2000-04-25 09:55 AM


Thank you for the flickers, as they reveal bits and pieces and fragments of a life and of the mind
Liz

Martie
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6 posted 2000-04-25 06:45 PM


Found it!! interesting.
Rosemary J. Gwaltney
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since 1999-08-26
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northern mountains, Idaho
7 posted 2000-04-25 07:40 PM


I think your enthusiasm flickers non-stop!  Hey, honey, would you get out your guitar?? Please??!

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