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Sikanda
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since 2002-10-08
Posts 54


0 posted 2003-03-27 02:28 PM


well here is my pathetic little attempt at poetry...haven't been feeling to inspired lately...hope you enjoy

~anna


"Joes Place"

a small, rundown bar
sitting beside a lone stretch of paved road
(the only one I may add)
Main Streets only attraction
In a small, sleepy town
where it seems only the dead
are truly alive

a sign in the window reads
"Joes Place"
but the funny thing is
Joe died long ago

inside it is dimly lit
smoke-filled
worn into the
old bar stools
and the tables
not even filled to minimum capacity

where the old men drink
and tell their jokes
and laugh
at the stupidity
of the younger generation

regular customers
til the day they die...

where the farmers come
to drown their sorrows
(of which there is many)
in a pitcher of beer
(or two, or three)
and laugh
with the old men
and to complain

about how the rich keep on getting richer
and the poor just keep on getting poorer

the atmosphere reeks of misery

yet there is something about this that seems
so comfortable
and familar
something so right
in all that is so wrong

smiling through the tears
this is where I feel the most at home

this is my town
and these are my people
and I can't think of anywhere else that I'd rather be



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bsquirrel
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1 posted 2003-03-27 03:48 PM


Sikanda! Great to see you posting here. I love the aura of comfort and sadness you bring to this piece. A nice way to break a block, to be sure.

Stella was a diver and she was always down.
Interpol

Sikanda
Member
since 2002-10-08
Posts 54

2 posted 2003-03-27 04:07 PM


thank you bsquirrel...

Honestly though I don't care of people think this poem is that great. In my mind I've acheived my objective and that was to show how much this place means to me.

This will always be one of my favorite poems.

~anna

Flower
Member
since 2003-03-15
Posts 240
California
3 posted 2003-03-28 04:01 PM


I can see why you would like this piece you wrote.  Very well put, I enjoyed my visit to Joe's Place.

Love reading all these great writes.
I write not!

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
4 posted 2003-03-31 04:31 PM


I know what you mean...you get comfortable with a place.  Watched the movie, "All The Real Girls" the other night and it was about a small town and I realized that I coudn't stand to live in a small town...I couldn't even stand the movie...boring...I have to learn to be more selective...I am comfortable where I'm living...James
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