The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 2/16/2009)

[RetroLounge]

After She Sat Down on the Couch and Told Him the Marriage Was Done, He Had to Leave on a Business Trip

He drove away from her. He drove until
the city flattened in the mirror, crops
diminished in the chocolate fields, until
the sky turned zinc. He sped past the rest stops
and drove until the mountains tilted him
into null air. He saw a pile of tires
burning. A tufted owl dived straight at him,
then veered away. He almost crashed. Too tired
to drive, he drove into exhaustion. Death
was on the road and he aimed straight for it:
a zero time, a cobwebbed love, decay,
a world of dust and chalk, pathetic yet
where else to live? So he drove into it
and drove away from her, drove her away.

Tony Barnstone

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RL

[blueraven95]

1. Good Morning!

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[RetroLounge]

2. Morning!

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[Chorophyll]

3. ...

I like the tufted owl. Gotta watch out for dem boids.

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[RetroLounge]

8. Hee

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. a cobwebbed love

:donut: :hi:

[RetroLounge]

9. ...

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[Sky Masterson]

5. Well thats a downer

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[RetroLounge]

10. ...

:hug:

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Retro...

Beautiful, evocative, so very sad...

Thank you.

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[RetroLounge]

11. ...

:hug:

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[Justpat]

7. .

It happened one evening that he sat down on the couch
right after dinner and said, hon
I had lunch in Patterson today,
tuna on a plate with no bread

And she thinks, yes, what did you have for dessert
your belly still drapes over your belt like a fat woman's ass
hanging over a bicycle seat

And he says, I had lots of traffic on the way home
and she thinks Oh yes I know what that is like
there has been a steady stream of thoughts fighting
for the same lane in my head all afternoon

And then he watches more muscular men on the TV
fighting to be king of a small green empire
while she puts things as much in place as they
will ever be in her life

Later the roar of his snoring silences everything
except the sound of her house whose gutters are rattling
like long tin cups.



I wrote this a long time ago. Ditched the guy.

Hope you don't mind me posting it. Pat

[RetroLounge]

12. Thank you

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Very nice...

RL