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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417In The Mirror 
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From over the city, she looks down with pity on the haphazard cancer beneath her The boom and the bust, the chaos and rust, a foul steam rises to meet her The festering greets her... The hiss of the streets and the tracks of their feet paved over like hardened arteries Hotels of past glory are dog-eared and hoary, lost in their colonial womb Lost in their colonial doom... Highway metastases exacerbate its disease The smell of food summons hungry men to eat Concrete and tarmac merge into living tissue La Joie de vie is not the issue Happiness is not the issue... From above and below this cancer outgrows the warmth and the throb of our life She smells people drowning in crumbling surroundings but it makes them believe they’re alive They’re alive...and this is the bottom line! ...just bein' Bluesy |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
I must say I enjoy watching your mind work line after line, especially on your social commentaries. ~L |
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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417In The Mirror |
Thanks, Miss Lori.  I've had spaces in time that allowed me to think some, fantasize some, and deal with harsh realities. I made the decision to pay attention to all three. ...just bein' Bluesy |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
"The hiss of the streets and the tracks of their feet paved over like hardened arteries Hotels of past glory are dog-eared and hoary, lost in their colonial womb" What you have said, I and others like me have lived it . . . Maybe you did also, but somehow I doubt it. This is a fantastic poem, my man |
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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
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Posts 2417In The Mirror |
Thanks for the read, Jerry. ...just bein' Bluesy |
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