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"The Buick", or, "to my grandfather" (Free verse) by david

He sits in the chair, the one that i hate. Smoking his cigarette, he seems to me like an idling Buick. He raised an enormous hand to draw my attention to his words, to his witty snaps about life, the chinese, and how wild it was during the war.

Joshua_Tree 19-Jun-05/12:27 PM
This is what free verse should be. There's a story that is being told by the images rather than exposited by the narrator, there are emotions being conveyed rather than explained, and there is a certain trust in the readers that they should determine for themselves if there are lessons, values or judgements to be made from the scene.




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