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Coney Island Fall (Free verse) by ecargo
It's the last fast drop of the season, and we scream! The blue tips away. We're hurled like a swing, and the air bites cold this autumn day. The cars on the Wonder Wheel lurch and glide--surprise! they slide! They sway. Bright as a gull's wing, gleaming, the Cyclone rises like a seaside sun, runs along the midway that slouches, shuffles, hawks its fun. On this Coney Island Saturday, the air blares with rap, the barkers beckon and bray. We laugh and gape; we run, two kids, again, at play today. And the clouds swing past, spinning in the bright blue blaze. We rush the edges, ride the rises, snug in the naugahyde hug of the seat, with the world laid out distinct and small. Hands raised, we shriek our glee. We fall, laughing, we fall.

Up the ladder: Body Worlds
Down the ladder: Upheaval (in a minor key)

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Arithmetic Mean: 9.4
Weighted score: 5.5244927
Overall Rank: 2629
Posted: February 3, 2006 2:38 PM PST; Last modified: February 3, 2006 2:39 PM PST
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[7] Dovina @ 67.72.98.92 | 3-Feb-06/3:10 PM | Reply
We couldn't ride the Cyclone even at Christmastime a couple of years ago. Couldn't even buy a dog. Much less in February.
[n/a] ecargo @ 172.145.59.138 > Dovina | 3-Feb-06/3:17 PM | Reply
How right you are! That's why it's Coney Island Fall (a pun). That's also why it contains the line: "this autumn day." Last day to ride is usually 10/31; first day to ride is the first Saturday in April (sometimes the last Saturday in March). It was cool to go in winter and take pics of the coasters in the snow, especially before they tore down the old Thunderbolt (under which Woody Allen's character, Alvy, grew up in the movie Annie Hall).

[n/a] amanda_dcosta @ 203.145.159.44 | 4-Feb-06/10:31 AM | Reply
I don't get it. Is this some kind of a roller-coaster ride called a cyclone or something like a giant ferrous wheel? Am I hot. Fill me in.
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