poemranker ::Volkswagon by ErgoErgun

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Free verse № 5480

Volkswagon

Member since 2002 · Posted 20 Jul 2002 · Edited 20 Jul 2002 · 3 comments

I'm driving across the rusted railway bridge of my life: A shoddy piece of architecture constructed under the strict supervision of unadulterated eccentricity and some lonely swigs on empty bottles. The bridge's knees buckle with doubt... (Doubt: rancid pollution that corrodes the skeleton of mortality [my mortality].) But still - in this presupposed hazard hope springs from a railing lining the edges, reading "Don't drive off. It's better up here." I like hope. It makes driving shitfaced possible... and falling off the bridge impossible But even with life's caveat, hope bears its own doubt - An indefinite wearying glamour that taxes the richest in spirit: I'm tired of looking for someone. I'm tired of living every moment of every day like it's my bedtime, waiting to drift away but gripping a semblance of reality (with tiny hands). I'm tired of waiting. And still, in her I see the same gentle uneasiness of a life fraught with doubt but fluttering to live. I see the life of a driver. What? Where'd this woman come from? Shut up. Life on the road doesn't make much sense. Images come and go like a merry-go-round infinite, and I simply like dreaming. I'm taxed and I want to dream. Isn't that what hope is? Yeah. A shitfaced, beautiful dream....................................

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[8] horus8 25-Jul-02/12:17 PM Reply
German's sure know how to build'em. I enjoy your workE
[n/a] ErgoErgun 28-Aug-02/3:12 AM Reply
I enjoy your comments. What a wonderful relationship. =]
[8] <{Baba^Yaga}> 28-Aug-02/3:17 AM Reply
really? how so? ah... huh..i bet. silence...bag pipe...wetgrass.. i chug a stout, adjust my kilt. it's time to game for tridents! poseidon!