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Robert E. Jordan
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0 posted 2008-03-06 08:58 AM

Felix is walking home
from a clients place.

He’s thinking that
he’s getting too old
for this.

He has to find an easier way
to make what he needs.

He walks past a liquor store
and a gun shop.

Something clicks in his head.

There's a cop on the corner,
watching him.

Bobby

KeyLimeSorbet
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1 posted 2008-03-06 09:16 AM

I love love love your use of 'something clicks in his head', it follows the gun shop way too well!!! ha ha, very enjoyed poem!

Earth Angel
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2 posted 2008-03-06 09:22 AM

Spotting a cop can certainly be a deterrent to committing a crime!

Bobby, you've set the scene but didn't spell it out, so to speak, and let the reader make his or her own assumptions.

It was like watching a clip from a movie.

Hopefully happier days will be coming his way.

Linda

Robert E. Jordan
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3 posted 2008-03-06 09:23 AM

Thanks so much KeyLimeSorbet, I like Key Lime stuff.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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4 posted 2008-03-06 09:36 AM

Linda,

Yes, happier days are coming--however, probably not for Felix.

He may be entering the shadowy realm of "Behind Closed Doors", in more ways than one, if you know what I mean.

Bobby

Marge Tindal

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5 posted 2008-03-06 09:57 AM

*** Let me guess, Bobby ... um, Felix buys a bottle of liquor, gets drunk, buys a gun and kills the cop ?

*** Second guess ... Felix wrestles with the cop, steals his gun, shoots the cop, then robs the liquor store ?

*** Third try ... Felix calls on his gang from the 'hood' ... they all beat the cop up, steal a bottle of liquor from the frightened liquor store owner, beat the stuffings out of him, steal all the liquor they want and throw a 'hood' party ???

***Next theory ... Felix knows that the cop is on the take, so he asks to borrow his gun, and the cop gives it to him to use while the cop goes whistling down the street (he knows Felix will bring the gun back when he's done.) Felix robs the liquor store owner ... cleans out the cash register, shoots the owner, grabs some liquor and meets up with the cop a block away ... returns the gun ... and pays the cop off ??

Can we choose the version we like best, Bobby ?

FELIX gets sent to prison for his antics !

I don't go to Behind Closed Doors ... but sure hoping that's the fate that Felix faced~

Oh ... Felix has a client ?
Didn't know that~
~*Marge*~
SDDDM

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simon
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6 posted 2008-03-06 10:04 AM

There may be trouble ahead...

Robert E. Jordan
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7 posted 2008-03-06 10:14 AM

Marge Tindal,

None of the above.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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8 posted 2008-03-06 10:15 AM

Simon,

Yes, you could be correct.

Bobby

Marge Tindal

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9 posted 2008-03-06 10:31 AM

Bobby~
Oh, okay ... I was just trying to come up with a scenario that would explain Felix's thought that he had~

There are endless possibilities~

I'll be interested in knowing what he was thinking~

~*Marge*~

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vandana

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10 posted 2008-03-06 11:23 AM

enjoyed

effjayel
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11 posted 2008-03-06 11:42 AM

What he should do is by a case of liquor, get the cop drunk, steal his gun & sell it to the gun shop for 4 times what he paid for the booze....

LadyTom
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12 posted 2008-03-06 11:52 AM

To the army!!!!

I am still thinking!!

Marchmadness
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13 posted 2008-03-06 11:55 AM

Youth and desperation are a bad combination.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
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14 posted 2008-03-06 12:11 PM

Yo Folks,

Thanks for all the thoughtful speculation. However, Felix is thinking what he spends a great deal of time thinking about.

“He'd like to have something to eat.”

Be patient please.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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15 posted 2008-03-06 12:55 PM

Ida,

What you say is very true.

You're a wise person.

However, don't worry, something good might happen.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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16 posted 2008-03-06 04:45 PM

LadyTom,

No, not yet. Of Course Felix will find his way to the Army.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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17 posted 2008-03-06 04:47 PM

John,

It's a good idea. However, Felix can't get the idea of eating something out of his hear. That pretty well crowds out any real planning on his part.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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18 posted 2008-03-06 04:49 PM

Vandana,

I'm so very pleased you enjoyed the story. Thanks for reading and commenting.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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19 posted 2008-03-06 05:01 PM

Marge,

He's thinking about food. Only food.

Bobby

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
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20 posted 2008-03-06 06:33 PM

smiles... Felix will do the right thing, I'm sure of it!

love RDB

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

Robert E. Jordan
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21 posted 2008-03-06 07:40 PM

Dear RDB,

Yes, Felix does the right thing.

Felix is going to gain a good friend.

Read "Felix and The Cop".

Bobby

JamesMichael
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22 posted 2008-03-08 05:38 PM

Enjoyed....James

Robert E. Jordan
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23 posted 2008-03-08 05:40 PM

Thanks James, I'm pleased you enjoyed it.

Bobby

secondhanddreampoet
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24 posted 2008-03-08 08:11 PM

some folk apparently have 'little clue' about the realities of city life for the socio-economically disenfranchised.

Robert E. Jordan
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25 posted 2008-03-08 08:23 PM

Secondhanddreampoet,

Yes, you are correct. We are all at that learning stage. It lasts a lifetime.

Bobby

ArtSolstice
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26 posted 2008-03-09 12:47 PM

In the film The Cradle Will Rock, presented in the form of a Brecht theatre work by Tim Robbins, a group of men who influence the artistic trends of our society are discussing social realism, such as the works of Diego Rivera. They say something like "We can't have this kind of art around. We can’t allow it to gain popularity. It reminds people that there are problems in the world related to economics, race, and social position. Let's kill it. Let's promote abstract art, because it doesn't say anything about these particular issues." And they do. That is true history folks, an authentic dialogue meticulously recorded influencing the arts for decades to come.

Bobby’s works – I read each new post several times – give us a view into this dimension of society. I’m happy that you’re here, Bobby, reminding us to have a social conscience, reminding us that not everyone has always had it good, and that some of us still don’t. Your works remind me every day to look around and see what I can do to be useful to the Felixes of the world.

Falling rain

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27 posted 2008-03-09 01:01 PM

hmm felixs chouse could be miss interprete. there are endless posoblititys to what he'll do. but he does nothing about the liquor store or the cop with the gun.

~Zach~

secondhanddreampoet
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28 posted 2008-03-09 01:04 PM

(sadly) for an ever-increasing number, life isn't at all about gardens, beaches, picnics with noodle-salad and such...

Robert E. Jordan
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29 posted 2008-03-09 02:37 PM

ArtSolstice,

That is a beautiful thought. Felix, as a fellow human being deserves good things to happen to him, the same as any other human being does.

Because he's had bad things happen to him, is no reason for his fellow humans to abuse him further.

We should all be useful to one another. That's the way it's supposed to be.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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30 posted 2008-03-09 02:42 PM

Zach,

To find out what happens next, you'll have to read my "Felix and The Cop".

Something good happens for Felix.

Bobby

Robert E. Jordan
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31 posted 2008-03-09 02:47 PM

Secondhanddreampoet,

What you say is true. However, we have to remember that "gardens, beaches, picnics with noodle-salad and such..." can be an artificial, and shallow existance.

Bobby

Midnitesun

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32 posted 2008-03-09 04:19 PM

Putting one foot in front of the other (it's a common survival method) Felix has but one thought...food.
It's a damn shame some find the need to interpret the juxtaposition of alcohol/cops/gun store to Felix survival walk as implying the protaganist has anti-social criminal intentions.

Robert E. Jordan
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33 posted 2008-03-09 08:27 PM

Midnitesun,

Thanks for the kind words on this poem. Everyone should be grateful to the Felix's of the world that more of them don't turn to anti-social activities. It's just something that never crossed Felix's mind. I don't know why it wouldn't. Perhaps just an innate human goodness and the ever present hope for better luck.

Hope always dies last--then who knows. Felix is young yet.

Bobby

Earl Brinkman
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34 posted 2010-11-25 05:10 PM

It is a good thing something clicked in his head.

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