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Ben Pike Junior Member
since 1999-11-14
Posts 20Southwestern Virginia |
In shallow confines lived a few wishful or confused. They were sought gradually when apparently all else on earth had been revealed. The first to be examined exploded and disappeared in a flash, so the rest were approached cautiously by people thinking themselves not evil, nor destructive, nor simple, nor crass. Dwelling silently in shallow backwaters or in the hollow of a stump, they had not avoided detection but had seemed irrelevant or almost dead, at least immobile, for sure inert. But when interest turned their way they proved enigmatic, proved a lesson in not jumping to conclusions about cabbages or toadstools or pansies in the woods. For when one was disturbed all the others shifted slightly, even without apparent means of corresponding. And when the first exploded, showering light without an attitude of vengeance nor of regret the rest of its sort lit up also, glowed from inside different hues. Anyone watching this said nothing, in fact never again moved. They became rooted, they shriveled, and for as long as their expressions could be read, looked as though this was what they had always wanted but never knew. So perhaps the rest will be tolerated, not analyzed, nobody will ask too many questions about which of their bodily compounds could be synthesized into a marketable product to improve someone else's quality of life. But if past trends hold we will not have so much patience and will all become transformed into one of those strange creatures clinging to the lee of a dead mangrove in a dark corner of some dank bog. ------------------ "There are no survivors on this earth" -Juan Matus |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
This is an interesting read, but I will have to digress from making any comment other than to say it's quite deep in origin, and you leave one thinking... |
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DreamEvil Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396 |
Welcome to Prose! Nan has spoken highly of your writing skills. I am glad to see they are just as she described. You and your work makes a wonderful addition to Prose. Indeed can everything in nature be dissected and distilled for some useful product, even Man. By that measure do some gauge progress. ------------------ Now and forever, my heart hears ~one voice~. DreamEvil© |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Welcome to the family! I hope you enjoy yourself here. This is almost sci-fi in nature I think (I'm not a critic so don't quote me). I liked it, your way with words is different from other postings here.  |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Hey Benedict (shows ya what I know)... I'm glad to see you made it back from the mountain..  Settle in and be comfy, my friend... It's a great family  [This message has been edited by Nan (edited 11-16-1999).] |
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Ben Pike Junior Member
since 1999-11-14
Posts 20Southwestern Virginia |
To tell the truth it's Benedict, but who's counting? Thanks for the welcome, Nan, and everyone. |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Well come indeed Ben! A mighty profound addition I agree... I love it when people get the ol' gears in my head a-spinnin' and you've done so! |
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Deep Blue Me Member
since 1999-11-04
Posts 396By a big lake |
I'll have an order of Prose Benedict. I'm wordless. DB ------------------ The little girl on the plane, who turned her doll's head around to look at me... ------Franny & Zooey------ ===J.D. Salinger=== |
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Marilyn Member Elite
since 1999-09-26
Posts 2621Ontario, Canada |
Wonderful. I love it when a writer makes me think. You do a wonderful job of this and I again welcome you to Prose. |
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Systematic Decay Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1301That place with padded walls and funny people in white......... |
This one does make one think..... ------------------ Thinking is just what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their predjudices. |
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