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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass 
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Emergency Here’s how I wrote the thing: See, it hits me right there in the book store, somewhere between Hemingway and Billy Collins. I got no pen, no paper, nothing. So I scrounge the aisles, scam a golf pencil over by the magazines, chew back a little wood to get some lead on it. Don’t care where it’s been. Paper. Clearance tag, yes! John Somebody’s book goes back to full price, a precious yellow sheet palmed as I duck out of sight behind the Famous Women In Literature rack and pump it out, small, fast, cram it all down onto that yellow tag, back and front, right across the big red price, writing really tiny at the last to make it fit -- And I won’t tell you which one it was! I won’t! |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ed...there is a lesson here..what is it? Paper, that's it! and a pencil? Then the fine art of writing without a keyboard. This poem is fun, no matter which one! |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
Ratleader Sometimes your cowboy symbols seem to be riding a bull, enjoyed. |
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Ringo
since 2003-02-20
Posts 3684Saluting with misty eyes |
FINALLY!!!! Someone speaks for the common poet lol. Who was it that said only the truly great can speak for the mundane?? |
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Ringo
since 2003-02-20
Posts 3684Saluting with misty eyes |
FINALLY!!!! Someone speaks for the common poet lol. Who was it that said only the truly great can speak for the mundane?? |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
LOL -- Hi, new guy ---I've done my share of double entries around here too! Glad you liked it liked it! ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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garysgirl
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Ed, you have got the most delightful sense of humor. LOL.....BTW, you should have seen me when I first got on here. If it hadn't been for these sweet people here always helping me, I don't know what I would have done...HeeHee!! Oh, about your poem. This is so true. I've wrote ideas down on unbelievable things. It's really frustrating whenever you lose those little papers, isn't it? LOL Now, are you gonna tell us which one it was??(not that it makes any difference, because you're so talented all of yours are excellent.)  Heart Hugs, Ethel |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
love this |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Ed...happy to find this again! I wrote a part of a poem today on my delivery sheet while driving....actually, whenever I had to stop for light or something...the poem was just going crazy in my head...so I had to. When I have time, I hope I will be able to translate it into something poetic!!  |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Enjoyed this! Me too! I have also written bits of poem on all sorts of things. - Owl |
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