The Etch-A-Sketch Approach To Karma In The Modern World

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Open Poetry #28

The Etch-A-Sketch Approach To Karma In The Modern World

icebox
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2003-09-01 12:07 PM

You called
to leave your latest story;
7AM,
your voice broken down
into magnetic memory,
still drunk on wine
and pheromones,
the scent of a new man,
the taste
of a single moment in your life.
I am used to this by now,
phone machine messages
left at any hour,
except when you think I might be home.
I used to just delete them
when I heard your voice;
I never get to tell you that.
I don't even have your number,
don't even know where you live
except it has to be a city,
where else could you find
all the pretty men you prattle on about.
Now I listen,
and separate the data from my heart.
It's a start I think
to healing the deep rip inside my soul;
it always seems you call
when you have just returned
to the edge of your control,
and have already flushed
whoever "him" had been.
I wonder,
if you understand the differences
between love and simple biochemistry;
you
for whom control of your surroundings
is paramount,
yet you are a slave
to the most elemental molecules
lighting up your brain,
and other nervous system sets
further south of that.
Do you ever connect the dots
that make the lines
that sketch
the self-inflicted drama of your life,
or is it really just a child's toy
that sets the boundaries by which you live?
Can you give a thought,
ever,
to the lives you toss away
when the etching of your momentary sketch
is ripped apart?

©2003 by icebox

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

1 posted 2003-09-01 12:20 PM

icebox

I don't know the right words to reply, except I'm touched by the heart break and mend of this relationship...and wish you peace.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2003-09-01 12:48 PM

Incredibly good write.
Some people never do understand the impact this behavior has on those who really care.

A sad but excellent write, dear icebox.

1slick_lady
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since 2000-12-22

Posts 6088
standing on a shadow's lace

3 posted 2003-09-01 02:37 PM

unselfish ones...ALWAYS love the selfish ones...i wish it weren't so...but it is...h

littlewing
Member Rara Avis

since 2003-03-02

Posts 9655
New York

4 posted 2003-09-01 02:39 PM

Good God, no some of us do not understand how we rip apart one's soul like shreds of paper . . .

amazing icey truly
xxoo

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

5 posted 2003-09-01 02:47 PM

Loved the title..and loved the write.

(I was always sadly inapt at that dang etch a sketch).

Susan

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