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Open Poetry #14

Parking Lot To Paradise

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

0 posted 2001-07-09 06:03 AM

Parking Lot To Paradise

When you get caught in Honolulu traffic it's not exactly fun in the sun.
For awhile everythings fine you're on the go until the next thing you know for no explanable reason the traffic starts to move real slow.
Suddenly you feel like a crowded surfer with no waves to ride awash in a sea of cars about to collide.
And you find yourself thinking something like "who gave all these people all of these cars."
You know Hawaii doesn't have a General Motors or a Henry Ford and I thought the locals traveled by outrigger canoe and rode on surf boards.
So the traffic gets slower and slower and that's when you discover the freeway is surounded by weed wackers and grass blowers.
They all add to the noise and the confusion
while you get upset cause your cars barely moving.
At the same time your car creeps to a stop you're so pissed off you yell at a cop.
He smiles and gives you the shaka sign.
Says "Brah it will get more better just give it time."
"That a big Aloha bruddah because time in paradise seems to be all I got because this here H-1 freeway has just been turned into another parking lot."

Jameslee@July08,2001
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ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

1 posted 2001-07-09 06:32 AM

Interesting James ....I guess all the people in New York and LA can ralte to this ....
like Joni Mitchell sang...."to pave paradise, put up a parking lot..." Good luck on your way home this evening!

Lighthousebob
Member Elite

since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

2 posted 2001-07-09 06:01 PM

Now, your writing gave me a whole new perspective on paradise..... interesting to read it from a local.... all this time I thought it was just groves of pineapple and fields of sugar cane. Very informative.

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

3 posted 2001-07-09 06:29 PM

well, ethome beat me to the reference. . . but, this is just like that. . .

great job James . . .

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