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CCfire
CCfire
May 27, 2011 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

favorite jeans i should toss out

i can come up with
reasons why i smoke
why i eat more when sad
i can explain how socks
magically disappear
in the machine

none come to mind
when each season
sees you as
a tired excuse
i carry in my back pocket

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Direction: How does this theme appeal to you?
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Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Melbourne, Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: Bukowski, Neruda, Rumi, Gibran, Jeffers, Corso, Waldman, Kerouac

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Comments

Esker

Esker

14 years 1 month ago

like grocery lists

there is great beauty in the singular of ordinary
your poems
for me are like treading water
feeling the freedom of slow gravity
of that bouyant joy
words like solutions washing over my
minds imagination

like a drink of luscious coffee

CCfire

CCfire

14 years 1 month ago

Your comments

are like fresh aired poetry that is dried just to perfection by the sun. It makes me smile. Thank you.

V

vexations10

14 years 1 month ago

I want to know

“why” socks disappear in the laundry. Neat little poem here, in my opinion.

K

Kailashana2

14 years 1 month ago

Ian, have to say I simply

Ian, have to say I simply love your replies as of late. Not moralistic or sentimental, real inter-action...humorous and insightful.

~A

CCfire

CCfire

14 years 1 month ago

lol

I guess I'll never know, mine just ended up those tiny pieces of paper stuck to fabric when you forget to empty them before washing. Just an annoyance :P

CCfire

CCfire

14 years 1 month ago

Thanks JC

I am pleased to see you visit anytime, and yeah those bits of paper are so annoying :P

Ian.T

Ian.T

12 years 10 months ago

CC

I have found those socks you are missing, I am not sure what is happening in this world. Those machines they sell us as washing machines worry me, I had a sock come out the other day with a flies backside stuck to it with its little legs jumping all over the place..
Just take care, And many thanks for reminding me to take those old faded things out of the wallet in my back pocket, a ticket for a Greyhound bus from 1978 this would not go down well in the present.
Loved the write so back it comes to top of the stream, Yours Ian.T