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Obedient Oblivion- repost for Susan
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Obedient Oblivion- repost for Susan |
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RobertB Senior Member
since 1999-09-26
Posts 1104Champaign, IL 
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This is for the poem: Feelings of Blue Today by Susan Obedient Oblivion She drove a 1988 Esquire station wagon with the driver's side window stuck in the Up position which is best because it kept the elements safe from her life... of taking kids to school ten minutes before the bell, laundry on Mondays, keeping the beer cold and the remote where it should be. Except a window stuck in the Up position cannot keep out the numbness of lonely nights staring at the ceiling weeping under heavy breathing… alcohol laden while she dreamed of coming home parking the wagon in the garage leaving the engine running. Robert |
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Sadelite Member Elite
since 2003-10-11
Posts 2519 |
Robert, I hope those were only dreams and that someone helped her repair the window. Sad events depicted in this excellent poem. |
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RobertB Senior Member
since 1999-09-26
Posts 1104Champaign, IL |
Sadelite, This came to me when I was in the drive thru at McDonald's and a woman in front of me was paying for her food. The window was stuck in the up position so she had to open the door to pay. She dropped her money on the lot and had to squeeze between the car and the building to pick it up. She looked like it was the last straw. The rest of the poem is fiction from my mind. Robert |
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Susan Member Ascendant
since 2004-03-27
Posts 5104walking the surreal |
Robert, Thank you. There are those days. Yet my roots are deeply sunk into a rich soil of love which keeps me well anchored no matter how severe the storm. Still, there are those days. Susan The whole of the Universe resides within each individual heart. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
dang! that's a powerful ending |
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Marge Tindal 
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
RobertB~ This IS wonderful, ya' know ?  Good to see you here, my friend~ *Huglets*  ~*Marge*~ ~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost, |
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RobertB Senior Member
since 1999-09-26
Posts 1104Champaign, IL |
Thank you all for reading. I guess I would still write even if you didn't. I did for 20 years. :-} Robert |
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