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route nine (Free verse) by Bill Z Bub
Route nine,
two thousand times,
by the yellow sign
Counting each second,
under drowning pines
Waiting for another
moment to arrive,
repeating numbered smiles
between sighs.
Picking up needles
paired like twins
between finger and thumb
they spin
Passersby grin
in the wake of wet tires
Deliberate hair
plastered
with cool July brine
I can already hear
the boxcutter's whine,
or have I fallen asleep
again?
Route nine,
two thousand times,
by the yellow sign,
only looking forward
to a warm blue bus
before work
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Arithmetic Mean: 7.375
Weighted score: 5.638736
Overall Rank: 2140
Posted: December 6, 2002 6:45 PM PST; Last modified: December 9, 2002 8:49 PM PST
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I'm not sure who's fooling who
as I'm watching your decay
We both no you could deflate
A 7 hurricane
Seems like you and your tribe
decided you'd re-write the law
Segragate the Body from the Soul
Don't give me yours
but i'll still give you mine
I can look your God right in the eye.
I believe in defending what we could've stood for.
It seems in vogue
to be a closet mysogynist.
A change of course in our direction
A dash of truth
spread thinly like a flag.
Oh Zion
please remove your glove
dispel every trace
of his spoken word
that has lodged in my vortex
--oh but no
Messiahs need people
dying in their name
you could have spared me.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Romans 8:18.