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Old man
Contributed by
fanniesson
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Saturday, 25th April 2009 @ 12:10:42 PM in AEST
Topic:
MiscPoems
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Now I’m that old man people look through
as if I wasn’t there,
that seemed to come from out of nowhere
each night with that mongrel dog of his
dragging him on a clothesline leach,
ten minutes after tomorrow’s paper
hit the newsstand.
That old man found, eighteen days dead
rotting in his apartment,
who’d picked his nose anywhere,
cried at the birth of his children & grandchildren.
Those that haven’t time to come visit.
While he waits for a pension check to show up,
in his twice broken into double locked mailbox.
So he could buy himself heart medicine,
ran out of a week ago.
Now I’m that old man
The one I shouldn’t have tormented
when I was a kid.
That old man who bother no one.
Copyright ©
fanniesson
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2009-04-25 12:10:42] (Date/Time posted on
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Re: Old man
(User Rating: 1 ) by Former_Member on
Saturday, 25th April 2009 @ 02:15:46 PM AEST (User
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your poems cut to the heart of social guilt, and that's what i like about them. a no holes barred assault on the conscience. keep it up sir.
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