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Open Poetry #48

All on a Rainy April Day

soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

0 posted 2012-05-07 06:42 PM

All on a Rainy April Day

Rainy April day,
and my Chuck Jackson All-Stars are water-logged,
and I thought I heard you say
something 'bout your favorite Dylan song
as you lit up yet another jay
and we slide along in your Cadmium car
20 bucks won't get us very far
but what with these holes in our umbrellas,
I really couldn't have a care

Monophonic sadness,
the radio sayin' something 'bout Strawberry Fields
lazily the fingers of me press
on the dusty dash and cracked windshield
this frickin' town's a mess
as we slip down the greyness of thunder
so saintly we gracefully blunder
together we walk with holes in our socks,
but I couldn't be at all aware

Hit the hi-fi button there
kick the dog off the futon n' I'll dare
to just drip into your lap instead
lemme unscrew the thoughts from your head
n' paddle 'round all day
in the lovely words you forgot to say
but hey you can say 'em to me
yeah yeah yeah you can lay it on me, babe

Drained of energy to die,
insects crowd the hushing, drowsy blue spring
and I saw thunderclouds pry
the sky molecules open of everything
say bye bye Miss American Pie
and we'll sip the torn heavens of love
sendin' out our courier doves
so fragile, so bleached, so not punk rock,
and I really am not prepared

Turn the radio up a hair
collect droplets of emotion everywhere
n' let's say this is the bookend
to our soaked to the bone runaway weekend
ye fool of nerdy white sin,
in the curse words of songs I've penned
hey hey I can pen them for you
yeah yeah yeah let me play it on you, babe

Rainy April day lost at sundown
and hey I think I just found
what chased away the dark cold winter
and I think I'm gonna stay with her
through the oncoming summer squall.

"I will hang on the hook of your splendor" -Snow Patrol, 'Dark Roman Wine'

ethome
Member Patricius

since 2000-05-14

Posts 11858
New Brunswick Canada

1 posted 2012-05-09 04:51 AM

Quite a trip through the verses of a rainy day.
Many song parts mentioned, clever write with lots of ambiguous metaphors.
Enjoyable bluesy read.

Eric

true love never looks after it's own interests

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