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Bobby Jordan
Member

since 2007-08-13

Posts 491
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

0 posted 2008-01-25 01:54 PM

It’s January
and it’s colder
than hell.

After school,
Felix would like to go home,
but it’s cold there too,
ever since Felix’s old man
got taken by the cops.

The only thing his old lady
wants to do is
yell at him.

She won’t give him
anything to eat.

She’s acting nuts.

Sometimes he’ll stay
at Butch or Wawa’s place,
but their old man and old lady
got fed-up with seeing,
and feeding him.

His ears are stiff,
and feel like
they are likely to break off,
his hands are burning,
and he’s lost feeling in his feet.

Some times he’ll go down in
the subway and hang around.

There are crazy people down there,
and he doesn’t like that.

So he just stays out in the cold,
and takes it,
until it’s time to go home,
and try to sleep.

Bobby

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2008-01-25 03:22 PM

I can relate to the cold in the times I spent in the Army in Germany...remember bundling up in everything I had to go out to the fring on guard duty...was so glad to hear that 3/4 ton truck coming to pick me up...James

Bobby Jordan
Member

since 2007-08-13

Posts 491
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2008-01-25 03:45 PM

James,

Thanks for responding. The cold is what makes the extreme northern, and southern nations aggressive and powerful. It's all an effort to keep warm. It molds their character.

Bobby

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2008-01-25 06:14 PM

I know how miserable the cold can be. When I was young and lived in the project in Boise, Idaho we had to walk quite a ways to school. We didn't have much in the way of winter clothes because we didn't have much money. By the time we got to school we were so cold and stiff that it took us an hour to thaw out and then our hands and feet would itch something awful as they thawed out.

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2008-01-25 07:47 PM

As one who tremendously minds the cold...
I believe this 'write' captures the reality of it exceptionally well!

applause!!

Bobby Jordan
Member

since 2007-08-13

Posts 491
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

5 posted 2008-01-25 08:36 PM

Ida,

Yes, what you say is what the cold is all about--pure misery.

Secondhanddreampoet,

Thanks, I'm pleased this one came across as real to you.

Bobby

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

6 posted 2008-01-25 11:38 PM

oh I would take Felix in from the cold Bobby.. noone should be left out in the cold.. but sadly there are people who are... I do feel for them greatly... love RDB

Be kind at heart....for everyone you meet has their own battle to fight.........

Earl Brinkman
Senior Member

since 2010-03-03

Posts 1183
Osaka, Japan

7 posted 2010-09-05 07:43 AM

You write well of the misery that children face. Your poem entitled `Donuts` in `City Boy Stays Alive` is etched into my brain.

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