poemranker ::We Need To Buy Socks, Michael by Fear of Garbage

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Free verse № 81529

We Need To Buy Socks, Michael

Member since 2003 · Posted 26 Jan 2004 · 6 comments

I am looking for something. I am cooking up this idea inside my head. Here I am crouching in a meadow or an underpass Wearing a too-tight Mexican dress. Take the camera; take your shoes off Michael, put them on the rocks. You are grinning, artistic, you were wearing flip-flops. Here are the people watching, from high overhead. They are grinning they are laughing; oh god I am bright I am red. Oh hey, Michael come back. It’s the black dress, I was wrong, the two of us by the underpass. Oh! Look. Here it is. Shining and dark Tucked into the grass and the hard, hard dirt. I take it, I take it back with me; I carry boots and barefoot And pick up rocks. I am looking down; neither of us is wearing socks.

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[9] sonawrote 26-Jan-04/8:15 PM Reply
glad some of us live life to the fullest....paints a great time for me
[9] sonawrote 26-Jan-04/8:16 PM Reply
glad some of us live life to the fullest....paints a great time for me
[7] irishfolksuicide 27-Jan-04/7:53 AM Reply
Afraid I could not work out the last two lines. Which is a shame because the poem built up well.
[n/a] Katzclear 23-Mar-04/2:59 PM Reply
the picture it paints for me is that the government is racist, and the high flying leaders are looking down upon people and laughing at them
[n/a] richa › Katzclear 23-Mar-04/3:14 PM Reply
neither wearing socks - sounds like they have just done some of what crystal lane swift talks about a lot.

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[n/a] Fear of Garbage › richa 15-Apr-04/9:29 AM Reply
haha no, not really