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What did you say?
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What did you say? |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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What did you say - what, what, what, what? And just like a train but, no, like a plane because tracks are like traps for the insane the answer chews up the mystical sky before landing here as truth or a lie. I have a mountain, you see, but it’s not really mine brick walls all around erected for crime and a shrill and piercing alarm to detect life’s plain and simple and ordinary facts let loose into air through any old stare … and “what, what, what” just the mind of a fool expecting repeats of what’s never said. And next to my mountain but really beneath runs a small stream that once was a river battling the throw of tins, garbage, packets, like a myriad of words that sully the truth … and the time of clamour, scamper, and slide down the steep sides of perceived lies a chore too hard for the aged and frail because the skin too thin lets everything in. On my left a collie, tri-coloured and bright, on my right a spaniel as stupid as life, but the same in and out come day or night and that, my love, is how you’ll find me someday perhaps in the mystical sky of time! Helen / 12 April 2006 [This message has been edited by Honeybunch (04-12-2006 04:53 AM).] |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
Oh Helen, that last verse grabbed me! I love it! |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
Loved the last verse....took some time to write this I'd imagine... |
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Ericc Member Elite
since 2003-01-31
Posts 4178 |
Awesome! Eric |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you Dixie, Toerag and Eric for the read. Very much appreciated. |
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