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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2006-03-27 05:18 PM


Magnified in the corners of lips
is a smile’s athletic ability
clutching an orange energy drink
and it seems rather strange that the bottles are plain
while the top so impressively grand
evades the grip, suck, pull, of lips
until the second battalion of teeth
is called to assist those once pretty lips.

All that aside or astride if you like
because it doesn’t much matter where
the useless and meaningless goes
when a smile is too weak to complain.

It’s supposed to be a pop-up top
not an abnormal adversary
that shifts the gaze from an inner maze
to the tug and pull of human fools.

But there sits the smile’s powerhouse
in the corners of lips like a twitch
preparing to smile like a canyon wide
at a woman’s foibles and quirks
and memo’s and notes and poetry
that once swallowed are gone, you see?

Oh, but the top, blue, blue, plastic
not in any way biodegradable
clogs up the drains and sewerage pipes
and sits forever like an ornament
in the dark dirty dungeons of life …
and of course there’s no point
to rambles and vents
when a smile’s athletic ability
has had its last swallow and gulp
because of a blue plastic fault!

Helen / 28 March 2006


© Copyright 2006 Helen - All Rights Reserved
passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
1 posted 2006-03-27 06:51 PM


oh Helen! How I've missed your creativity!
WindWalker
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since 2001-10-12
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2 posted 2006-03-27 10:48 PM


This is wonderful. You do have away with words!
Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
3 posted 2006-03-28 12:12 PM


Dixie - thanks and the blue pages weren't the same without you.

Windwalker - thank you for the read.  Much appreciated.

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