RUNAWAY

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    • monkyntz
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    RUNAWAY

    mexican girl
    gold ring in her naval
    white cotton tank top
    and baggy blue jeans
    sucking through brillo
    her reason for living
    filling her mind
    with nightmares and screams

    giving it up
    for her glass messiah
    soothing the savage
    she angers the beast
    chasing the rush
    with aimless devotion
    she collides with the sun
    and cries herself to sleep

    groping the boredom
    of middle class losers
    selling her pleasures
    to feed her disease
    she's somewhere else
    when nine to five probes her
    pretending the fingers
    are fingers of kings

    one day, somewhere
    alone in a motel
    naked and crawling
    she runs out of ledge
    still in her hand
    the pistol is smoking
    and her eyes are open
    open eyed dead

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    Writer1 commented on RUNAWAY

    06-03-2009

    Thx for recommending I read this. I do see the similarity in my "Last Fix." Same situation, feelings and unfortunate end. I, too, find that I like your poetry very much!!

    When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

    John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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