The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 5/8/2007)

[RetroLounge]

Graduation

My ex-wife comes over
and invites me to sit

with them. I say okay.
There are a lot of speeches,

all saying much the same,
about the new generation,

the future belongs to them.
They're lining up for it,

walking onto the stage.
There she is, our Meredith.

The sound of two hands clapping
is mine. If there's one thing I know

it's when something is over and
done with, and it's time to go.

Louis Simpson

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RL

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[RetroLounge]

1. Hellooooooo?

:shrug:

RL

[Writer]

2. Hello.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

3. Ah... How are you today, my friend?

:hi:

RL

[Writer]

5. Good, thank you.

Just waiting for my phone to charge completely so I can go out to work a bit.

How about you, Meow Mix?

[RetroLounge]

6. I am having a good day...

I would rather be other places, like outside enjoying the weather, or at the bookstore, or sitting in some anarchist coffeeshop full of cell-phone throwing pit bulls in DHS jackets tossing cream pies at each other...

:9

RL

[Writer]

8. Yeah...

I'd say the last option on that list is a bit more stimulating. It's the flying cream pies. That always gets me worked up.

(:9 is all I think about nowadays.)

[RetroLounge]

9. Think of me as a flying cream pie

or at least one who will lick the cream off afterwards...

:9

RL

[Writer]

10. You know me so well, my circuitous, tasty treat.

I "clean up" well. :9

[RetroLounge]

11. ...

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RL

[Writer]

12. Oops!

Now what did I write to you in my last email? Oh dear...

[blueraven95]

4. poignant

thank you.

[RetroLounge]

7. You are welcome...

:hi:

RL

[BarenakedLady]

13. Well

I certainly appreciate the last two lines. *ahem*

[RetroLounge]

14. ...

:hug:

RL