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Open Poetry #43

Passing Thought Waiting for A Cab

Huan Yi
Member Ascendant

since 2004-10-12

Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2008-11-18 09:42 AM

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Dying . . .

It must be
Like going

To Memphis
On business
In November

.

WTBAKELAR

Senior Member

since 2008-09-09

Posts 1089
Utah, USA

1 posted 2008-11-18 09:46 AM

Makes me wonder???
Is Memphis that bad?
Or is it that Good?

Hmmmmmm!

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2008-11-18 10:00 AM

Yo John,

I get it, I've been to those slow places.

Bobby

steavenr
Member Elite

since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

3 posted 2008-11-18 03:36 PM

last time I went through Memphis, I got turned around on Beale St...reminded me of going the wrong direction on a one-way street...close enough to dying, I suppose

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2008-11-18 04:35 PM

Ouah John, This is both sad and funny, I choose to laugh but I appreciate the powerful thought sustaining your write...This is a gem I will not forget soon...

thank you very much indeed.

yann

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

5 posted 2008-11-18 05:48 PM

more like going to Detroit (...the 'Sphincter Ani' of America?!)
almost anytime...[but, particularly during that week when the
pyromaniacs ignite section(s) of the city...if that still happens?]

good 'penning'!

applause!!

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

6 posted 2008-11-18 05:50 PM

Huan Yi - I have to differ with the words, it's even worse than that...

BC

Pantheress
Member

since 2008-11-02

Posts 215
Queensland, Australia

7 posted 2008-11-19 02:03 AM

I liked your poem, although I've never been that way.. and from what you wrote, for that, I'm kinda glad..

Ethan Halo
Senior Member

since 2000-04-28

Posts 793
on the roof again

8 posted 2008-11-19 03:30 AM

I hope i'm not the only one thinking of the lyrics to "Walking in Memphis".

if you're there now on business, download it and give it a listen.
You might change your perspective on Memphis... or it may reinforce it.

i liked this though. short and provocative.

The soul is oftentimes a battlefield where reason and judgement wage war on passion and appetite.

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