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Marge.

of_the_girlof_the_girl Posts: 745
edited August 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
An old man and an old woman walk down the street. The old woman shakes and twitches and spasms as she walks. She makes strange sounds and mumbles to herself. Her husband sadly walks her to the car with his arm around her shoulder.

The old woman stops at the sight of a little boy and his mother... she grabs his arm and she remains shaking. The boy looks scared, the mother looks into the old woman sadly. The old man exclaims, "marge, let's go! marge!" but the old woman doesn't let go of the child. she just smiles and holds onto his arm.

"marge, let's go, marge!"

finally, they depart... the man sadly walks her the rest of the way to the car...

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i saw this yesterday. everything is sad lately. everything.
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." --Plato

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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    A nice glimpse. Reminds me a little of Virginia Woolf's "Kew Gardens".
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    reminds me of when my adoptive mother took us to Dundrum Mental Hospital where she was a consultant psychiatrist - to visit the patients.....at the ping-pong table.....I said hello to one of the patients, and shook his hand....I was about eight......he just kept shaking my hand and wouldn't let go.....(it was like something out of The Shining).......
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • Being EnlightenedBeing Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    It's amazing how people we don't even know can touch us so deeply! Although it IS sad, you've captured the feeling beautifully here, of_the_girl. Thank you for sharing that! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Obi OnceObi Once Posts: 918
    eh i had almost the same thing when i was about 8, i went to c my grandma in a home for people with dementia and some old lady kept pinching my cheek and talked jibbirish, it sounded sort of nice but freaked me out..
    your light's reflected now
  • of_the_girlof_the_girl Posts: 745
    Originally posted by Being Enlightened
    It's amazing how people we don't even know can touch us so deeply! Although it IS sad, you've captured the feeling beautifully here, of_the_girl. Thank you for sharing that! :)

    :)s at Being Enlightened. It is really amazing how people we don't know could touch us so deeply!! I think about that every day. I love watching people and taking them in, and it almost always affects me in some way or another...

    I enjoy people watching.. and then I make up stories in my head about what their lives are like. I love doing that. :)

    ~*~

    And Obi, I know the feeling! In elementary school, when I was about eight or nine, my Girl Scout troop went to visit the nursing home for Christmas. We sang Christmas Carols and stuff, and then we met all the old people, afterwards. Well, this one elderly woman in particular looked so far into me, took my hand, and started crying. Then she said "you look just like my granddaughter". It was so sad... but it was nice too. Bittersweet.



    It must be hard being that old. :(
    "At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet." --Plato

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