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Virgil, you are late.
07:20 Jun 19 2010
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Still sitting on the middle step
Watching the steam rise
From dank New Orleans gutters.
It lifts itself with hands of vapor
And stands,
Thinly,
Regarding me
In exactly the fashion I expect,
Having read every fairy tale,
Every happy ever after
Penned to distract.
Even now,
Laughter and color holiday past,
Hand-in-hand along the walk
Like all good stories.
Yet we are all that is real tonight,
Phantoms
From gutters,
Half-formed screams
Haunting the script
That burns our lips cold
When they deliver the lines.
But we are not fine!
"No," he agrees, "we are not fine."
But this is only the middle step
And now
It's time to go.
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imagesinwords
07:26 Jun 19 2010
I can't help but read when I see 'New Orleans'. And because you craft words in such a way... curiosity becomes delight.
Joli
07:28 Jun 19 2010
Thank you :)
BLOODLIFE
10:45 Jun 19 2010
Wow! Where did that come from?
You have never failed to deliver great work. I wish I could peep into your mind.
You simply know how to evoke one's imagination.
borked
13:34 Jun 19 2010
I found the reference to the middle step.
That is a beautiful way of saying we have journeyed from the white marble, to the cracked second step. And we are that bit closer to the Angel.
Joli
23:44 Jun 19 2010
I'm blown away, borked. I don't usually explain what I'm trying to say because I respect the reader's experience and what they bring to what they read. That you'd even care enough to wonder at the allusions...how can anyone who writes not be jazzed about that? I doubt my feet will touch the floor today. Thank you :)
placidchaos
04:50 Jul 01 2010
Hmm, I like this. It's soothing and reassuring but not in any way I can stick my thumb on and say, "Yep, that's it." I like it.
vampfan2009
03:29 Jul 16 2010
yep, sounds like all the break ups i've ever cried over. the frustration, the scripted words, the calm after the storm when you think over what you just said and did...