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PoeticKnight
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since 2000-01-20
Posts 1144
New Orleans, LA

0 posted 2000-03-30 01:16 PM


Frantic is the pace of life
Always moving with greatest unease
Running rats for hands of clock to seize
To slow that frantic pace
Just to save face
In the race,
Of a frantic and hurried life

Cattle herded from here to there
From grazing green to water
From living to slaughter
And all of us in line
Obeying the signs
Just killing time,
Breathing artificial air

The enemy time common to all
Never enough or so it seems
The pace only rests in dreams
How to stop no one knows
Speeding up as it goes
Only once it slows,
Just before the great fall


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CherylLynnMckee
Member
since 2000-03-28
Posts 215

1 posted 2000-03-30 01:24 PM


It sure feels that way alot of days..I like the comparisons you draw in it.. nicely done.

 

Janet Marie
Member Laureate
since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

2 posted 2000-03-30 08:55 PM


Running rats for hands of clock to seize
To slow that frantic pace
Just to save face
In the race,
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And all of us in line
Obeying the signs
Just killing time,
Breathing artificial air
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bad day at work hon?  
j/k--lol
this is way cool and so sarcastiscly true.
made me think of that Bob Seger song.."Feel Like a Number"...

work is such a waste of good poetry writing time...BUT it does allow SOME of us computer time to play in Passions (not mentioning any names) LOL
stalking you still, your jm



 Do you live by the book, do you play by the rules
Do you care what is thought by others about you
If this day is all that is promised to you
Do you live for the present, the future the past...
tracy chapman


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