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shirtless
Member

since 2006-04-29

Posts 359

0 posted 2006-05-02 12:23 PM

**The exaggerated spaces indicate places I wanted line endings. The space allotted here would not accept the full poem in its intended form. You might try pausing at the spaces to get the emphasis and the pulse I intended. I appreciate your reading  my poem.

TELEVISION SOUP

several     times     too often
Wide World of Sports
replays
Lee     Harvey     Oswald’s     fastball
ripping     through the leather
of JFK’s
catcher’s mitt
until
it is     no more     to me
than Wyle E. Coyote
fielding     another     anvil
with his head
and I     am early to bed
for tomorrow     I must drive      my car
with its posturepedic mattress
to the Saturn     family     picnic
so I miss     the ex     news     anchor’s
late     night      special
on the Home Shopping Network:
for less     than one     dollar     a day
you can feed
a foreign     coloured     child
stomach     pregnant     with emptiness
and receive     letters
thanking     you     and Jesus
in a script     you do not recognize
and a language     you do not understand

oh     I miss
my pocket     radio
that lay     beside     my thirteen year old pillow
and called     me     to exotic
late night     basketball games
in Boston     and New York
until

the tube

made travel

unnecessary

froggy
Senior Member

since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

1 posted 2006-05-06 11:21 PM

I like this Shirt.
Welcome to Piptalk.

:-)

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace."

Albert Schweitzer,
Nobel Peace Prize Wi

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2006-05-07 12:06 PM

And thank you for posting it! I miss my "thirteen year old" everything!
Welcome to pip!
Helen

Enchantress
Member Empyrean

since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

3 posted 2006-05-07 12:19 PM

A most excellent write Anthony.
If I have not welcomed you before...
I shall say it now.
WELCOME TO PASSIONS!!
You already have become one of my favouites to read.
~Smiles & Hugs, Nancy~

~ Trace my body with your words,
in doing so, you touch my heart ~

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