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[title] => Our Old Trampoline
[time] => 2007-07-01 14:33:13
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[bodytext] => Watching the blue and yellow lights Across the sound where widows hang their alibis And simple people do simple things Where mayors wind out under kings There’s peace and quiet on a tampered shore Now I’m on fire, there are crosswords on my face Sketched out and numbered, impossible to erase With edged black and white lining My look is now defining, and I can never wash this all away Time keeps passing Children laughing, children age Now we’re cracking Honey, do you remember our old trampoline? And the sky is torn up, between beautiful and clear The oranges bounce the darker purples, the moon seems near Instead of some old chunk of earth abandoned and cold It’s more like a stranger I can’t help but think I know There’s loneliness it’s been redeemed By recordings on message machines With the sounds you feel familiar, but can’t hide the pressure Of the screaming inner child underneath As the sailboats line up like ancient wood Atop the dancing ocean, good And good luck if you can remember Honey, us on our old trampoline You were bouncing so high You thought you’d reach the sky Like the years wouldn’t fly on by If only you could try, and reach some point where you could watch From a bird’s eye lonesome view Of our lives on the streets of an aging avenue But you came down and landed, see? The springs were just too rusty, I mean, honey, don’t you remember our old trampoline? Who knew a jump to immortality could ever be so mean [comments] => 0 [counter] => 165 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Franciswolf [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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