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Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2007-04-30 04:15 PM

Terror

1:
First, the Sun is born;
and after that, its children.
Time passed and, on Earth,
both Life and Death appeared.

2:
a young girl brings me a caged gull,
a boney, prehistoric-looking thing,
to keep for her till she returns.
But millions of years pass,
and there is the sound of rushing water.
The bird, and the carrion it has eaten,
rots and then begins to stink.
Millions of years pass,
and there is the sound of rushing water.

3:
The young girl plays in a heated indoor pool,
and the air hangs thick
with the steam and scent of chlorine.
As she plays, a dark, malignant thing
inches toward her from the heated depths below,
a deadly, petrifying force
that will fossilize her unless she leaves the pool.
I try to tell her this, but she pays me no attention
and just goes right on playing.
As savage Death draws closer, again I try to warn her;
again she will not listen. And her splashing and her cries
only grow wilder, and then frenzied, then delirious.
In terror, with only seconds left to spare,
I rush outside and try to call for help.
But no one else will pay attention.
No one else will listen,
not until I know that it has happened,
not until I know it is too late.

Floating in the thick, primordial muck
Southern Cross

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

1 posted 2007-04-30 04:26 PM

thank you, Sir.

it is terror but It is still "nature". You sing beauty happily and you sing terror sadly.
what a true poet!!

it is true.

enjoyed.

Jaime Fradera
Senior Member

since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

2 posted 2007-04-30 05:11 PM

So Draunts, Is it true, all about California girls ... beach babies ... tell me it is all true!!!! My dad took me to LA for medical treatment, but I was surprised that: (a) I COULD breathe and (b) the sun didn't shine until we departed LAX.
Also there were no fires or earthquakes. But maybe on my next trip there... ... ... ...

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

3 posted 2007-04-30 05:36 PM

you sure will love it.

I am too old to enjoy the baking sun and the cold water.

are you all right now with your illness?
wish you well and get back to your good health.

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

4 posted 2007-04-30 06:37 PM

Better dreams

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