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AncientHippie
Member

since 2009-10-15

Posts 411
Surfing the Cosmic Flow

0 posted 2009-10-26 09:14 AM

Her pregnancy, only minutes from term,
gave her the look of a tumbleweed
as she stumbled
through killing December cold.
Sally Ann band on windswept corner
marked the passage of one whose experience
was the cosmic opposite of their celestial joy:
"...crib for His bed
the little Lord..."

With labour pains almost constant
she turned into the alley,
sheltering in the shadow of
a green dumpster, which exhorted
a more affluent society to
"Keep our City Clean."
She squatted as her water broke,
and cursed her most recent companion
for throwing her out
when her condition
invalidated her use to him.
She blasted her last two rocks
in the lifeline of her pipe,
and suddenly
"God!"
it was done.

The investigative team
discovered the icy creche
near the area where
the Paras had found her,
collapsed,
in the street.
The rookie swore
when he opened
the dumpster,
quick tears freezing
on his cheeks,
while in the distance,
the Army concluded their ministry
with "O Holy Night."

From "Anger in the Street"

Sutra 25: Remember that a pile of ordure is simply that: Seek not to give it meaning.
Jim's Guide to Enlightenment: The Complete Sutras

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2009-10-26 09:23 AM

Vivid to tears,Jim...sniff..thanks...sniff~L

GBride
Senior Member

since 2009-07-02

Posts 538

2 posted 2009-10-26 10:33 PM

Your sad poem depicts the tragic tales of the street a tale of hopelessness and despair not really very sweet.
Of people lost in a deep dark hole, of with no way out, booze and drugs takes it's tole.
What can we do to bring them back, is it the will to act that holds us back?
People tend to think that drugs are only a problem in the cities. But they are here in our little town too. There is plenty of meth for any who want it. And people here do.
It's a little secret, we are not supposed to talk about it. Decent people don't mention it
in church. Too disturbing.
Thanks for the poem.
Keep on truckin" AH

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

3 posted 2009-10-27 01:15 AM

Powerful and very sad.

A

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

4 posted 2009-10-27 04:45 AM

so sad AH, thanks for sharing

yann

AncientHippie
Member

since 2009-10-15

Posts 411
Surfing the Cosmic Flow

5 posted 2009-10-27 08:42 AM

Thank you, Lori.

Thank you for your comments, GBride. Tragic, indeed. Again, it is about inclusive society, rather than punitive and exclusive.

Alison, and Yann. Thank you.

Sutra 30: Language reflects the Truth of one’s Reality: listen carefully when others speak.
Jim's Guide to Enlightenment

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