irreconcilable differences part deux

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saw
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irreconcilable differences part deux

Post by saw » June 20th, 2019, 7:21 pm

dino our beloved friend and poet
wrote this amazing confessional series
and well in that spirit I too will use that light
to craft a follow-up story to my last post
and we'll see were this thing goes,
so let me offer these additions
the night she left I sat on the porch drinking
starring off and on at the psychedelic porch plants
occasionally exchanging pleasantries
with passersby known and unknown
and damn it if I didn't wake up at dawn
in that same old upholstered porch chair
you hippies no what I mean, and I got dressed
went off to work
when i got home Everything was gone
the old guy next door said, " Her 3 brothers
pulled up one of them big old moving vans,
and cleaned her out !"
I believe that's the way he put it.
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: irreconcilable differences part deux

Post by judih » June 20th, 2019, 10:44 pm

we come into the world empty-handed
we leave the world empty-handed.
and you got an empty-handed in between.

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Re: irreconcilable differences part deux

Post by theirishsea » June 21st, 2019, 8:24 am

Powerful. What are you going to do? I'll have to catch up on Part 1
The Irish Sea Is Always In Turmoil, Even When Calm.

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Re: irreconcilable differences part deux

Post by sasha » June 21st, 2019, 12:11 pm

(not intended to upstage your piece, but to jam on the theme...)

way back in the last century
I was on a team of computer programmers
who'd gather 'round the watering hole every Friday night:
Willy, Carl, three Steves, two Mikes, a Tom and a Greg
others I can't recall...
and we all brought along our SO's into
an uneasy alliance of personalities
in constant, low-level conflict
sniping and jostling
then
a guy named Kevin joined the team
I liked Kevin - he was funny, friendly
but the alliance didn't agree
and one night
they all stood when Kevin walked in
and dragged their menfolk out
I broke ranks - invited him to join us -
but he knew what was going down
thanked me and declined
and we didn't see much of him after that.
...
my wife and I seemed to lead the way in lifestyle changes
first to marry
first to buy a house
first to reproduce
this last set us apart
and when I changed jobs
my defection was not taken well
so that one night what happened to Kevin
happened to us
Betty cried all the way home
while I seethed...
but there was something else underneah
an unexpectedly agreeable feeling I couldn't pin a name to
til the next day:
Liberation
in cutting us loose they'd set us free
she changed jobs shortly after
and neither of us ever looked back
.
"Falsehood flies, the Truth comes limping after it." - Jonathan Swift, ca. 1710

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Re: irreconcilable differences part deux

Post by creativesoul » June 21st, 2019, 6:15 pm

Breaking up
Is hard to do.
I dunno/ I just think it’s funny
The way people pack furniture around
I told one of my rich friends
I could never live like you do
Renting my house out for the weekend
Carrying food from the fridge
To a cheaper rental for the weekend
I cannot even sleep on the same sheets once my headache begins
It ends
It’s over

The poem is very beautiful
Inspiring
reason is over rated, as is logic and common sense-i much prefer the passions of a crazy old woman, cats and dogs and jungle foliage- tropic rain-and a defined sense of who brings the stars up at night and the sun up in the morning---

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