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Pause The old man wandered into the dim orb of the streetlight sweeping the pavement with watery and bloodshot eyes. His hair was windblown and unkempt, his face gray and unshaven. His whole aspect indicating a long affair with "Lady Grape". The suit he wore if it could be called that, had long ago lost any semblance or respectability. The jacket was shiny in places and much stained, short in back and long in front. His pants were ballooned out at the knees, faded and streaked with old spills and with something else hinting at periods of incontinence. He bent over and picked up an object from the sidewalk, perhaps it was for this he had been searching and straightening up he put the cigarette to his lips. He began to systematically search each pocket of this clothes to determine if one contained the means of lighting his find although the spartan contents of all could have been ascertained with just a moment of mental inventory. After finding and using the matches the old man inhaled deeply and threw back his head to survey the night sky. He stood there for a few minutes smoking and looking up, then removed the butt from his lips, tore off the fire and placed the ragged cylinder into his pocket. He patted the pocket once as if to assure himself of the item's security and himself of a later reward, then the old man's body settled into it's memory mold and he shuffled off into the night. *** Written by Agnes Randolph. |
seeing your image i am tired my eyes are hurting i don't want to go to bed yet i keep wondering about you writing poems for you in my heart you don't know about them i won't tell you what i write my words stay here with me at night i sleep with them dream with them sometimes you are in my dreams feeling you close beside me i don't like to be haunted seeing your image seeing your image seeing your image seeing your image i am tired of wanting you seeing your image *** Cherylin Z. Martin-Wade
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