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dark is the night
Contributed by
Jan_Oskar_Hansen
on
Saturday, 26th October 2002 @ 09:45:00 AM in AEST
Topic:
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Dark Night
The kitchen was dark and cold,
electricity gone again, the price
I have to pay for living far from
a town, ought to live in suburbia
with streetlights that chase
antisocial darkness under bushes
and at the bottom of the garden
where crawly things thrives in
a compost heap. Opened a drawer
to find candlelight I needed to
find the oil lamp and was bitten
by a knife, then I remembered that
I had left it on the top shelf to
better remember…Froze, heard
a knock on the door and things
that slithered on the floor, I wasn’t
going to answer that knock and
waited for another one.
The pale moon came to my rescue
gave me a secret kiss of comfort
the room was clear except for a rat
that kept making love to my left big
toe, embarrassed scuttled away
when its amorous advances wasn’t
appreciated. When I lit the oil lamp
the electricity came back on, put
the lamp on the top shelf to better
remember next time. Wondered what
would happen if electricity disappeared
altogether and night really would
be night again, not like now where
I can sit in a midnight park and read
the evening paper.
Copyright ©
Jan_Oskar_Hansen
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2002-10-26 09:45:00]
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Re: dark is the night
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by Baby_Blu-XTC on
Saturday, 9th November 2002 @ 08:01:39 AM AEST
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Re: dark is the night
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by Lips on
Monday, 24th July 2006 @ 02:37:27 AM AEST
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Wouldnt it be interesting ... never to be able to read when we choose.. how would we get through those long nights of wakefulness!
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