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Open Poetry #44

Bones and the Gang Scare People

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

0 posted 2009-05-10 07:02 PM

The hood looks to be
a little dreary,
and always has.

If you’re not used to it,
the hood can be intimidating.

Bones and the gang
sitting on the settlement house steps
aren’t about to attack.

Non-the-less,
people new in the hood,
or just visiting,
always seem to walk
in the center of the street,
and keep an eye out
for the settlement house kids.

It’s insulting,
but there’s nothing
Bones and the gang
can do about it.

Bobby

Alison

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since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

1 posted 2009-05-10 07:03 PM

Sometimes we fear what we are unfamiliar with. I am sure Bones and his gang would be apprehensive in my neck of the woods too.

A

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2009-05-10 07:15 PM

Thanks dear Alison,

I'm sure you are right. You've got bears and stuff in your hood--right?

It still always made me feel bad when people did that. They'd risk getting hit by a car rather than walking on the sidewalk like they should. It always made me want to scare, or rob them. We'd just shake our heads and ignore them as best we could.

Love Bobby

Juju
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since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

3 posted 2009-05-10 08:39 PM

I only felt threatened when the whole group eyes me. then I veer away. Basically when I am eyed by poeple I don't know make me uncomfortable.

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2009-05-10 10:44 PM

Thanks dear Juju,

In truth, we didn't eye anyone, and I'm sure you would not have felt threatened or uncomfortable.

The problem was our neighborhood had a very bad reputation.

When I lived there, we were the only neighborhood in the city where you couldn't get a doctor to visit you. That was in the days when doctors made house calls.

If you got really sick, someone would call the police, and they would come and take you to the hospital.

Love Bobby

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