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LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

0 posted 2004-09-15 11:47 AM

Angles in America

With medical concerns
Band-aids sob
Staring down empty streets
Holding bread knives
Terror in small towns
Wiping liquor off their chins
Practicing safe sex
Through the mind of Dr. Jones
Scraping plates of victims
Infested with dark omens
Charging heartless rent
To move far away
Where no body goes
and everyone turns from!

Callousness laughs
Holding tourniquets
Teeth dripping with dead
Ohhh pain kits of maniacs
Pressing against bare breasts
Of paper dolls & long forgotten photographs

The creature hums plaintive melodies
For a mate of the evening
Shrouded in darkness
Skeletal fingers inviting
A thousand times 10
Who knows the last?

The waiting arms of black crepe
Pressing hard against the door of salesmen
Forgetting to look both ways
Feeling broken glass of hot leaping love
Which leaps from place to place to place
Emotional blackmail throwing stones
Sounds playing pool in mud rooms

Dried blood blurring images
Straight jacket death march
Cynical artists sharing birth marks
Driving us to a sinful prom
One of which we’ve never been

A story about AIDS

Startime55
Member Elite

since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

1 posted 2004-09-15 11:51 AM

WOW!!! A stunningly powerful poem that goes straight to the heart....

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

2 posted 2004-09-15 02:00 PM

Lee

Impressive as always

Dave

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2004-09-15 02:26 PM

sigh

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2004-09-15 05:03 PM

The only word that comes to mind is "awesome". Perhaps could more aptly refer to "Africa" but is certainly world wide.

marcel
Senior Member

since 2003-03-02

Posts 660
az, usa

5 posted 2004-09-16 11:25 PM

Very powerful and meaningful piece here, It certainly brings a new meaning to the word "awareness". thanks for sharing.

KMM

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

6 posted 2004-09-17 11:59 AM

LeeJ

I know I've told you what an amazing writer you are...I say it again!

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