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How to sleep sitting up (Free verse) by Bachus
Double wide trailer on hard red clay. More frozen pipes this winter than normal. Tumbleweeds collecting eternaly in wind fed niches. ground so dry, even the snow won't kling to it. This one summer I rotatilled the front yard. Rolled out sod & put in your rainbirds. We built you a front deck, garage & pine fence. Took 40 full wheelbarrow hauls of boulders an such to the dead end. You said to me, "You get dark like your mother in this sun". Pulling on a menthol, you'd walk away and as an after thought say something else, "But god you're as bow legged as a choir boy" like your father, my Billy. Then you'd laugh, and cook a crock of chile. And we'd watch horror movies & sleep sitting up. The next time I saw you, you were small and sick enough to carry. Please know I will not let you down, again. When you died I was afraid to go back. And I still haven't. It has nothing to do with you.

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Arithmetic Mean: 6.952381
Weighted score: 6.952348
Overall Rank: 161
Posted: July 6, 2003 2:17 PM PDT; Last modified: September 9, 2003 11:48 AM PDT
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[10] DreamerSupreme @ 66.81.153.230 | 6-Jul-03/2:23 PM | Reply
Its like painting a scene with words. You really got the juices boiling today aye? 10.
[10] Bill Z Bub @ 24.43.48.67 | 9-Sep-03/1:42 PM | Reply
And the champ comes out swinging, with a KO in the first minute!
[9] http://mulberryfairy @ 216.195.146.186 | 9-Sep-03/6:15 PM | Reply
That is great, but clean up the typos, especially if this is a serious tribute to someone.
[n/a] Bachus @ 24.126.113.154 > http://mulberryfairy | 9-Sep-03/8:48 PM | Reply
Which one.
[8] fevriere @ 62.254.128.6 > Bachus | 9-Feb-04/3:53 AM | Reply
I suppose it means the K on kling, but it's exactly fine. Reminds me of poor out-of-town supermarkets.
[10] annabellee @ 64.252.105.83 | 30-Jan-04/8:51 PM | Reply
WOW! That's powerful stuff! 10 and that's the only 10 worth it I've seen so far.
[10] New Life Drug @ 67.116.240.77 | 11-Feb-04/6:15 PM | Reply
dude that almost made me cry
[10] unouluvme @ 209.110.217.87 | 28-Feb-04/5:41 PM | Reply
I really like this one. Not that i dont like it, but do the last lines work with the rest?
[10] daveslady @ 140.211.124.224 | 4-Mar-04/9:54 PM | Reply
made me sob. great way to capture the pain of a beautiful memory.
[8] Ice @ 203.76.227.225 | 28-May-04/10:07 AM | Reply
it was good...gave me goosebumps
[8] madamefrufru @ 217.36.106.50 | 14-Jul-09/5:16 AM | Reply
Brilliant, loved it!
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