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Open Poetry #25

Fantasies of Graceland

Brad Majors

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since 2001-04-03

Posts 2647
Georgia

0 posted 2003-04-01 03:03 PM

She screams
at empty air
preaching
to sewer rats
covering little ears

Waiting for
sequin god
woman
dancing naked
singing
"Blue suede Shoes"

Closing wide eyes
dreaming
he enters her
to the the tune of
"Love Me Tender"
filling with Graceland

Waking alone
wandering
mumbling about
the Gospel of Elvis
to drunks and rats
on Hollywood and Vine

Ericc
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since 2003-01-31

Posts 4178

1 posted 2003-04-01 03:34 PM

This is awesome!
Eric

Aenimal
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-18

Posts 7350
the ass-end of space

2 posted 2003-04-01 03:46 PM

Great stuff Brad, jarring image from the streets

Brad Majors

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since 2001-04-03

Posts 2647
Georgia

3 posted 2003-04-01 03:50 PM

thank you.

majnu

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since 2002-10-13

Posts 1088
SF Bay Area

4 posted 2003-04-01 04:07 PM

you just started that damned paul simon song playing in my head!!!!

nice bit.

-majnu
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Timid thoughts be not afraid. I am a Poet.

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

5 posted 2003-04-01 04:10 PM

This reminds me of "Midnight Cowboy" and "Taxi Driver" - amazing - as always xxoo

Brad Majors

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since 2001-04-03

Posts 2647
Georgia

6 posted 2003-04-01 04:13 PM

thank you

Jason Lyle
Senior Member

since 2003-02-07

Posts 1438
With my darkling

7 posted 2003-04-01 04:28 PM

Very good Brad, images from the street.Powerful and well written
Jason

Ivy Rose
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 1300
MA, USA

8 posted 2003-04-02 12:45 PM

Brad...A powerful piece of writing. We often see street people as bums and drunkards...but we forget that they are people with lost memories and fractured dreams. GREAT POEM!!!! ***Ivy Rose

dreambuilder
Member

since 2003-03-23

Posts 319
caddyshack

9 posted 2003-04-03 08:41 PM

omg littlewing - you took my response - taxi driver - lol

& Ivy Rose my other words

brad great write - not the ussual topic - which is refreshing

JP
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since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

10 posted 2003-04-03 08:47 PM

Once again, well done. Stark and unsettling, I loved it.

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

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