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Open Poetry #2

Relentless Rain

Soleil
Member

since 1999-06-12

Posts 113

0 posted 1999-09-26 09:03 PM

The rats scurry for cover
Making home where those have none.
The mud puddles around
Blankets in the grass.
Their owners, stoned to the max
Are in their own rainbow.
Those on patrol for vacant garages
Return for oatmeal and coffee.
SSI checks mean sandwiches
But that is three days off.
There is a violent tribal order
And those in charge
Huddle under picnic tables
Planning their next strategy.
When it rains
There is no place to go.
For them, it does not stop raining.
So?
Lithium and prozac are not
The drugs of choice.
And John David died of an overdose
Preferring death’s release to the rain.

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 1999-09-26 09:15 PM

You have painted a picture that I am afraid is all too real for too many people. Very well done.

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Denise

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

2 posted 1999-09-27 07:27 AM

This work may not be so sunshiny, but it certainly is enlightening...

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

3 posted 1999-09-27 08:41 AM

Very deep

Seymour Tabin
Member Empyrean

since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

4 posted 1999-09-27 09:02 AM

Soleil,
Agree with Nan.

Balladeer

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

5 posted 1999-09-27 10:33 PM

Hard-hitting reality well displayed. Nice work.

johnt300
Member

since 1999-09-12

Posts 214
san diego, ca.

6 posted 1999-09-28 09:09 AM

Thanks for this piece. Very unsettling but well written.
Tyson

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