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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2002-03-16 08:17 AM

Walking round,
The dusty streets of downtown,
Eyes grabbed
Car nabbed,
Pulled to watch by sirens sound,
Flashing lights
In the night,
Another bust going down,
A drunk clown.

Cans cascaded out the door,
Bourbon bottles on the floor,
Then he denied the drinking
What the heck was he thinking,
A little late to say no,
With spills on his shirt that show,
The police got out their chalk,
To let the clown try to walk
The very nice yellow line,
To sobriety define,
If sober easily done,
But he decided to run,
Not that he got very far
Colliding with a parked car,
The police didn’t laugh at all,
Loaded him up for the haul,
Took the clown to the lock down,
Called for the car to impound,
Then they saw me in darkness
Asked me if I would witness.

To chance view,
Sometimes it’s what you do
In a glance
Happenstance
And seen by only a few,
To witness
In darkness,
Events casual imbue
By a view.

Gloom

Lady In White

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since 2001-02-12

Posts 2799
USA

1 posted 2002-03-16 08:26 AM

One of your longer ones, sir, and a depiction worthy of noting, for then one would say...not I....

and then in the quiet of the eve, lift the glass to lip...

well done!

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

2 posted 2002-03-16 08:32 AM

I have never been witness to a drunken clown other than the one that onced lived here...and as you can see by a poem this morning... he still clowns around enough to misplace the important things in life.

A very unusual event, but not for Downtown I guess. Nicely word visioned.
*s
M

Zinsser
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since 2001-02-27

Posts 1641
Calif.

3 posted 2002-03-16 10:25 AM

Cans cascaded out the door,
Bourbon bottles on the floor,
Then he denied the drinking
What the heck was he thinking
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To many memories here .....
Great write....
Connie

Silver Streak
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since 2002-01-02

Posts 3625
FL, USA

4 posted 2002-03-16 10:36 AM

Gloom, great write. Yeh! I've seen similar scenes when I was a kid and prowled the other side of the city. Never been a witness, though. And don't think I want to be.

((Gloom))
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Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

5 posted 2002-03-16 03:04 PM

(sigh) Oh Aszard, I think we can all trample upon these occurences of happenstance every now and then, sweet friend, I have witnessed several incidents like this before and it truly is a scary feeling to be a witness, for we never desire to be the tattle-taler and it can bring a lot of anxiety to be an outsider in the inside scoop! (big hugggsssss) This is very emotionally powerful, dearest friend, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Aszard, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

strbbux
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since 2001-12-19

Posts 3859

6 posted 2002-03-16 03:56 PM

Gloom how very sad that this is true, And innocent people get killed, I loved how you put this together, good work. floria

Floria

"Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them"
(Oliver Wendell Holmes)

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