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Falling (Free verse) by D. $ Fontera
Falling from the eighteenth floor
I passed a sly caucasian whore
She said to me
"What shall it be?"
And I replied, quite honestly
"What's the matter if we're dying?"
To this she answered
"Aren't we flying?"
I left her thus and shook my head
Sure that we should soon be dead
Falling, windows blurring past
I met an archer dropping fast
He said his say and strung his bow
"So swift and fleet!"
"Art thou mine foe?"
To him I wondered
"Can't you see?"
"The waste in all this archery?"
He looked quite angry as I flew
I turned and bid one last adieu
Quite uncertain of their plight
I whistled by an Irish fight
They looked at me and started jeering
"Wha ya want
Wit all tha leerin'?"
I asked so calm
"Why not look down?"
"You're all about to fight the ground"
They paced about, so sure they'd win
I hurried on and quit that din
Floating in my endless space
I came upon a baby race
Worried mother's clambered, calling
"Son, I'll stand
For no such bawling"
Out I shouted
"Be more caring!"
"An equal fate you'll all be sharing!"
The teary-eyed just watched me go
I fell with incensed moms in tow
And still I fall for far too long
Meeting minds who make me strong
I fall with little understanding
Of the impact of my landing
When all above
And all below
Have touched the earth
And felt it flow
They might get up, decide to live
To learn again what falling gives
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