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Darkness In a Four Room Attic

Midnight's hollow streets... Rolls Royce crushes cigarette butts as sinful, cold drizzle of animalistic desire lurks on shadowy corners of locked buildings, for a price... negotiable.. Balconies bear yesterday's broken beads as a jazz musician is soundly asleep. So much hard numbness in those easy to open bottles... It rains over useless signs: " Do Not Park On Bridge!" Skid marks end in despair... A street light dies totally alone... The phone rings with a grin looking for a Call Girl. ... Hello? I tear out my heart and replace it with a wallet Lipstick crosses boundaries of good taste so romance cannot develop. I lay down frames with pictures of loved ones, face down...execution style...as I pour myself a glass of Morality Suicide...I drink it before I let myself go for, yet, another night of desensitized numbness...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 1/20/2011 7:17:00 PM
Excellent descriptiveness is contained in this rendering. A very fine job.
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Date: 1/7/2011 6:48:00 AM
Just absolutely "riviting" and "staggering" this is a winner to me, you have the gift of storytelling, that is quite clear~~
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Date: 1/4/2011 12:35:00 PM
*any resemblance to a real person is purely coincidental (fiction)
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Date: 1/4/2011 12:24:00 PM
do i hear the voice of experience? john
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Date: 1/3/2011 6:32:00 AM
WOW! i love ur poem!
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Date: 1/3/2011 5:07:00 AM
What a way to start out my New Year reading such exceptional poetry. Thank you for starting the new year out with us sharing your wonderful poetry Iolanda. Love, Carol
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Date: 1/2/2011 3:30:00 PM
Wow, Iolanda....a whole different side...just what Catie was looking for...excellent!!
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