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Open Poetry #35

Last summer in the City

marcel
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since 2003-03-02

Posts 660
az, usa

0 posted 2005-06-20 10:14 PM

Last summer in the City

I so loved the summers in the city
The sparrow’s song and the bumblebee’s sting
Smells of perfume, baby powder and happiness
Mothers yelling above the sounds of construction
At youngsters who played in waterholes and parks
The old men with hankies, wiping away sweat
Contemplating moves on checker boards
The ice-cream man playing the part of the pied piper
Luring young and old alike to buy his tasty treats
On the corners were boys with braids spitting game to shy girls
And out the apartment windows, daydreamers pondered
On the stoops below, young women would gossip
And in the gutter around the corner
Hidden within the shadows of the sunset
I lied on my back gazing at the faint and blurry sun
Slowly bleeding and dying from a stab wound………

Marcel

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