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Joining The Dead Poets Society

James_A_Fraser
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since 2003-09-03

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Out Making Anticlines

0 posted 2005-05-06 06:21 PM

Joining The Dead Poets Society

Eventually your IQ goes down enough

            you stand by munching
            Starbursts and Jarrell
            while they wash you out

that you can justify even Los Angeles

            the blasting flavor
            of bluegrass on rye
            worms, the smell of whiskey

or you set your fever on one oh seven rising

            times three with roses
            Pooh has Christmas in July
            if not for thoses

with a creak of turnbuckle or fast snap

            it's a wild ride and
            mayonnaise doesn't help
            she'll gag shy by it

or the black steel mosquito waiting

            always hungry but starts
            in brimstone and April
            is the cruellest month

waiting like caramel apples and Snow White

            pleasure from the tiny
            grate and tick of
            metal on clean metal

and if the Prince kisses me awake

            I'll break his nose

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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1 posted 2005-05-06 07:00 PM

wow...I loved that ending

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2005-05-06 10:13 PM

Jamie

Very interesting and playful...very much enjoyed by me!!

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

3 posted 2005-05-09 05:22 PM

Eventually your IQ goes down enough

            you stand by munching
            Starbursts and Jarrell
            while they wash you out

that you can justify even Los Angeles

LOL... The overall tone of this is distressingly dark...  even the humor has a hard edge! This is a change of style for you but utterly delightful... I love the ending!

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