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GBride
Senior Member

since 2009-07-02

Posts 538

0 posted 2009-08-15 07:02 AM

Okay so you’ve got your little patch.
It’s not much and just rented.
But it’s yours for now, just yours.
You can look out the window and see the rain.
You can turn on the television and watch the travel channel
Be instantly transported to Ireland or Spain.
Cook yourself a breakfast of eggs and hash browns,
at any time of day, regardless.
You are your own when living in a trailer park.
No pretensions needed or required, only losers live there, you know.
No one criticizes you to your face, there is no need.
“Isn’t it sad, she lives in a trailer park, must be a victim of love gone wrong.”
But what they don’t know is that there are books within the trailer
They take you to worlds unknown that take you places,
that you never dreamed you would go to when you were born.
Outsiders do not know this, and it is their loss.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2009-08-15 08:48 AM

Grinning here, for I stayed in a trailer park for two months while between jobs and cities, but found it a relaxed atmosphere with unpretentious neighbors.
(You'll never hear 'trailer trash' jokes from this lady.)

Earth Angel
Member Empyrean

since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2009-08-15 09:44 AM

I'm with you! Give me a good book that can transport me to other places ~ other times ~ then the need for external trappings slips away.

My girlfriend lived in a trailor park for 3 months while the house that she designed was being built. I practically lived there myself during tht time. I loved it! People were down-to-earth. ~ No putting on airs and not a pretentious bone among them. ~ And boy did they know how to party! They also were very protective of each other and were there for you at a moments notice if they were needed. Yeppers! The proverbial homemade chicken soup was brought around when my friend had a bad viral infection. When I think of trailor parks, I think of real, down-to-earth people! My kinda people!

Thoroughly enjoyed your write.

Read any good books lately?

EA

Yoinn
Senior Member

since 2007-08-16

Posts 649
Michigan

3 posted 2009-08-15 11:11 AM

It's been my experience that trash can linger in a mansion as wells as a park. If a heart of a person is good..it matters little where he lives. This poem is a nice reminder of that..I like it very much.

Yoin

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

4 posted 2009-08-15 02:55 PM

I think this one gets a person looking deep inside themself. Sometimes we don't like what we see.

Good one.

A

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

5 posted 2009-08-15 04:32 PM

GBride - nah, don't believe only losers live in a trailer park. Nope, know too many good people living there. However, there could be some losers there, but also some losers everywhere...

BC

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