sis was the town tramp but she wasn't a bad kid when the police brought her home in the morning they always bought her an ice cream cone
the city was ringed with ice cream shops and dairy whip stands too in winter there was dunkin donuts there was no escape
the red and blue lights of the police cars blot out the milky way you couldn't see the andromeda galaxy even if the town had outskirts
officer stone was a jets fan and wanted to move to oregon officer mcgovern preferred the philadelphia eagles and liked to take his three kids on picnics
they stood on the front porch with the fog laughing silently behind them and said, mr and mrs america here is your wandering girl
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amazing how this can be both right now descriptive and still feel prophetic... I feel for the girl...
the last stanza is a blow...
i love it!
very powerfully moves our limited perspective to a higher level... to see things more profoundly... more interrelated...
'the red and blue lights of the police cars
blot out the milky way'
'the fog laughing silently behind them...'
wow! you really open our eyes to see things differently...
harlequin
thanks once again for all your kind encouragement
hb,
a) i am glad you like these little poems
b) i am really glad you have the time and means to comment on them!
oh timmy you cannot imagine how glad i am to find a way to be in this virtual world once again... to read you and other friends...
especially at this time when what i witness is unimaginable cruelty toward innocent people... lynching both their bodies and souls...
and not even being able to cry out your anger... to have a big lump in your throat all the time...
you cannot imagine how your beautiful poems on my blog along with other friends words saved me... to be able to crow once again...
the sorrow sometimes is so heavy one feels speechless... you saved me... thanks friend...
you help me live... tolerate... i need this... as more terrible things are happening here...
hb,
this is certainly very humbling ... i don't know what else to say ... except to continue to wish you luck
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