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Just The Way It Is (Today, Maybe Not Tomorrow)
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Just The Way It Is (Today, Maybe Not Tomorrow) |
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Alison 
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! 
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Just The Way It Is (Today, Maybe Not Tomorrow) Or I Can Be Indecisive If I Want The sky was washed with remnants of bruised shimmers of pink that dusted billows of steam pulsing streams from the power plant into the sky. It had no place to go but sideways. The expression that a silk purse can be made from a sow’s ear sang in my mind as I drove through the cold bites of ice fog, looking at a town that resembles Siberia at its ugliest, most flat and desolate, moments. I’d rather the ear remain on the sow than become a purse that I never will use. And if I wanted to live in Siberia, I’d have moved there ions ago; but, honestly I never saw any redeeming geographic features. So, I watch a lonely train going nowhere as it scatters particles of pollution sideways and, idly, I wonder if I am part of a Gulag. Maybe I didn’t know or just plain forgot. Maybe this day is simply misplaced with the ones that came before it. And, I realize with clarity the reality is that I have grown to hate the cold that batters my bones brittle. - Alison |
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Ceinwyn Member Elite
since 2000-07-09
Posts 2175VA |
Uhh..can I just say "wow" for the record... ok, what are you having and can I have some? The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. |
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TinaTrivett Senior Member
since 2006-07-15
Posts 569 |
This sounds like my place of birth...loved this Alison. |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Well I know what you mean.....I'm Canadian and we tolerate the cold we never ever get used to it. Love many of the lines in this all the same. Eric |
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Dark Stranger Member Patricius
since 2001-03-19
Posts 13631West Coast |
ms ali-san...yep..these damn beach blizzards are really putting a cramp in my speedo too..enjoyed your pen babe |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
You writing is crisp with window slices of real life |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Kris, I will happily share anything with you. Maybe we could make it a picnic and share with each other because you certainly capture me with your poetry. I have missed you. Alison - Tina, Then you understand. I always seem to feel like you do. Thank you. Alison - Eric, Thank you. Yep, cold can be the cross we bare. Alison - D I wonder what was packing that Speedo. Not that I was lookin' or anything. (grins) ali-san - inkedgoddess, Thank you. Your words always mean a lot. Alison |
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Alison
since 2008-01-27
Posts 9318Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy! |
Ack, I hate it when I double post. It's late, and I am tired and my stinkin' dial up wins for the night! A |
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