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emel.scott
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What vicious freedom these four wheels
that put the lie to my good grace.
It serves ill temper up to deal,
each card a smarmy, angry face.

I set my stinger in his eye,
then gun it towards a winding route.
Expletives trail off passers-by
as he may be in hot pursuit.

Accelerator under foot,
deposit of my displaced stress.
Depressing, it reveals a root
of cowardice, I must confess.
Last edited by emel.scott on September 26th, 2010, 6:11 am, edited 8 times in total.
We should not mind if on our ear there fell. Some less of cunning, more of oracle...Thoreau
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your intent seems pretty clear to me
but I have heard poets say the meaning lies between the poet and the reader

the mystery is how poetry reveals hard truths.

vicious freedom
hell of a line.
I think you just meme'd me
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easy to be outspoken when encased in a ton of metal.
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yeah, and I haven't even gotten to the nose picking part yet :)
We should not mind if on our ear there fell. Some less of cunning, more of oracle...Thoreau
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my head feels like that, sometimes! :shock: :lol: gracias for the poem!! :)
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"I am a victim of society, and, an entertainer"........DW
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emel.scott wrote:deposit of my displaced stress.
Depressing, it reveals a root
of cowardice ... .
I really like the flow of thoughts and sounds in this all, really here: [er, um, above]
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw
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