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Published: 2015-02-22 07:51:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 1215; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 0
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Sepia world, barnstorming, brainstorming, building up, looking outOf dusty cracked windows to see it all happen, now, again, bold
Into the empty yellowed skulls piled up around the old church
Only on morphine days, though, when we fall out of grace
God, look at the crows, how many pilot their way across the sky
Obscene noises through the dust, shitting on old rusted machinery
Abandoned throughout dried-up, smashed-down stalks of corn
Here, to the left, the foundation of a house that no longer exists
There were good days here, once, weren’t there? Maybe not…
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Comments: 37
It amazes me how much you can say/convey with so few words....This put me through a wringer of feelings. Well done!
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Good stuff, a tragic ironic final line...Well Done!
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Snowflakes of melancholy,
gliding across the meadows
that witnessed our first kiss.
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after reading the comments:
in many ways, human spirits rise
where we might think it cannot
many times fortune rises to meet
and match that spiritual flight
it can happen, Ron...
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of course, never always
though sometimes often
maybe close enough
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As noted before, love the twist the "maybe not" gives to this.
Excellent!
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I knew a family when I was growing up who were very poor. Their days were filled with work and school... their clothes were always old, they never had any entertainment. I sometimes wonder what happened to them. I hope things got better. What a sad life they lived!
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That is a pretty sad story.
Hope they got better as well.
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I, on the other hand, am certain. There were good days, and can be, still.
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Gotta love your positivity, man. My first wife (1973-78) sent me a card wishing me a quick recovery. That word just opened a new world... a chance for recovery? I just hadn't been thinking along those lines. Wow, maybe I will have a few more years...
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I have good days pretty much every day, especially recently. There have been some times when I thought too much, that I'm close to 72, my Dad died while he was still 73, my Mom barely made it past 74, I'm next, and soon. Every ache hurt a thousand times. Fuck that! I've exercised a bit and burned food like crazy; I feel good. The aches are small now and mean nothing. I've watched happy things and do so every day. Not tv, though, thAt's depressing! 
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Yeah, I've been off TV for several years now. I like to download cartoons like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Squidbillies, but I rarely take time to just sit and watch. Too much to do to waste time vegging out. My mom is eighty and still in good health. Dad died at 78. These damn pills have me too weak to get much exercise, but I'm doing what they want me to do. Eat, drink water and lots of rest. Maybe you and I will live forever, who knows?
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Hey, if you do turn out to be immortal and live forever, will you promise to come put that McLeod charm on me??? (Highlander reference) I hear immortals have special skillz that us mortal women can only dream of.
Of course you're gonna recover. You're gonna outlive me. You have to. Don't ever give up and think of not recovering. You bring a lot of value, and light, and intelligence and kindness, and beauty to the world. You can't let your light go out. The world would never recover. Yes, I talk about that "Beatles getting off the plane at Heathrow" moment when we get where we're going. But I want you to have that moment as late in life as possible. But hey, maybe that's just 'cause in my own twisted, messed up way I do love you. So you might take all of this with a grain of salt, or a whole margarita. It's just my own perspective. But hang on anyway.
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Hahaha, thanks so much! (and yes, of course I'll do it.)
I'd love to take it with a margarita, but alcohol and morphine is a killer mixture. I probably wouldn't be bitching so much if I could drink!
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Ouch. Sorry. Well, margaritas after you're better then.
Looking forward to my moment with a certain immortal...
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We never know. This is the best I've felt in years.
Squidbillies? Never even heard of that one, much less seen it locally. Of course I don't have cable or dish.
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It's surreal comedy about hillbilly squids... One of the few things I have on in the room and half-watch while doing other things. It's on Adult Swim at night.
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Ah, Nickelodeon. I've never had that.
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No, not Nickelodian... I'd have to check to see what channel it's on. I watch mostly on disc.
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I love the twist "Maybe not" puts on the whole picture. Nice.
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Thanks, Richard. I wasn't sure about including that line...
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It can be inflected different ways - from "of course there were never good days" to "there probably were good days" - I like how the openness sends the reader back into the body of the poem.
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