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I need...Stranger Danger
I often wonder
If the rest of my life
Will be like one of
Those rusty playgrounds,
Where the bouncy, plastic
Animals don’t really bounce
Unless you push really deep and hard
With your heels
And the metal swings squeak and rattle
As though swinging violates violently
Their oxidized, brittle bones
Going to split in half at any moment
Or slip into the mud puddle
That never dries at the bottom of the slide
Surrounded by sand clumps of cat
Urine
and odd sprouts of untethered weeds
between the cracks
of everything .
Right now.
I believe,
Well,
That’s me
Unless I find
A New sun,
Brighter plastic,
A lover
Who knows better
How to weather
These uncouth blasts of winter
Winds
If the rest of my life
Will be like one of
Those rusty playgrounds,
Where the bouncy, plastic
Animals don’t really bounce
Unless you push really deep and hard
With your heels
And the metal swings squeak and rattle
As though swinging violates violently
Their oxidized, brittle bones
Going to split in half at any moment
Or slip into the mud puddle
That never dries at the bottom of the slide
Surrounded by sand clumps of cat
Urine
and odd sprouts of untethered weeds
between the cracks
of everything .
Right now.
I believe,
Well,
That’s me
Unless I find
A New sun,
Brighter plastic,
A lover
Who knows better
How to weather
These uncouth blasts of winter
Winds
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Re: I need...Stranger Danger
20th Apr 2015 11:06pm
re: Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 3:29pm
Re: I need...Stranger Danger
Heavy write, Virginia. I feel this.
"Unless I find
A New sun,
Brighter plastic,
A lover
Who knows better
How to weather
These uncouth blasts of winter
Winds"
Things will get better. The sun will burn brighter when the winter winds subside. The world is more beautiful because of the bad weather days, because they don't last forever and the sun comes out.
Blah blah blah. Haha you know all of that. It isn't profound as much as it just...is.
"Unless I find
A New sun,
Brighter plastic,
A lover
Who knows better
How to weather
These uncouth blasts of winter
Winds"
Things will get better. The sun will burn brighter when the winter winds subside. The world is more beautiful because of the bad weather days, because they don't last forever and the sun comes out.
Blah blah blah. Haha you know all of that. It isn't profound as much as it just...is.
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re: Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 3:30pm
Blah blah blah...lol. Listen, Sammy, you are speaking of SAD which may not be what I am experiencing. I just did a presentation on your particular sadness, lovely friend. And btw, everyone loved your poem.
Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 2:31am
Out of pain comes some pretty fine poetry. I just hope it passes. The pain, not the poetry.
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re: Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 3:31pm
Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 2:49am
the danger of that particular stranger could be the hand that guides you to a very adult playground, earthly pleasures for the woman that you are...
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re: Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 3:31pm
Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 3:39am
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21st Apr 2015 3:32pm
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re: Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 3:32pm
It's seems dangerous..to wait for a stranger to take me out of my old, rusty playground. But I do need to enjoy a good slide.
Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 5:11am
Strange way to look at love lol
Like how it brings old loves from childhood into a view of adult love 😁
Great write
Like how it brings old loves from childhood into a view of adult love 😁
Great write
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re: Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 3:33pm
Re: I need...Stranger Danger
21st Apr 2015 11:46pm
Re: I need...Stranger Danger
22nd Apr 2015 00:42am
this kinda creeped me out as you waited for a man in a dirty mac that promised he had a puppy in his car - adults should be wary of stranger danger too
well penned but disturbing :-)
well penned but disturbing :-)
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