Poorly Strummed Guitar

CranMalReignCranMalReign Posts: 1,928
edited November 2003 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Since I received such encouragement in another thread (you know who you are)...

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Poorly Strummed Guitar
December 24, 2002

we don't talk

TOCK!

TOCK!

The clock hurls the second hand sledge
through a veneer of wasted time
trying to coax my guitar
into song

some painful rendition of
Ode to Joy
or Come As You Are

but we sit
my sister and I
choked and muted
checked and afraid to speak

we had traded poorly strummed riffs
before Dad left

we traded dodged glares after

maybe he went
to get me a beginner's book
for my new guitar

is that what
"Kiss my ass"
means in code?
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Comments

  • coleencoleen Posts: 938
    thank you so much for treating us to another poem today. thats pretty potent writing. :)

    i think my dad and this guy should get together sometime.
  • Originally posted by coleen
    thank you so much for treating us to another poem today. thats pretty potent writing. :)

    i think my dad and this guy should get together sometime.

    Hey, thanks. Lalala, pwems!
    • 98 Pgh
    • 00 Pgh
    • 03 Pgh|Philly|PSU|Camden 1+2|Hershey
    • 04 Boston 1|Reading
    • 05 Philly
    • 06 Camden 1+2|Pgh
    • 08 Camden 1+2|Hartford|Mansfield 2
    • 09 Philly 1 [EV]|Toronto|Spectrum 1-4
    • 10 Cleveland|Buffalo
    • 11 Philly [EV]|PJ20
    • 12 Philly
    • 13 London|Pgh|Buff|Philly 1+2|Balt
    • 14 Cincy|StL
    • 16 Philly 1+2|Philly 2 [TotD]
    • 18 Boston 1+2
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