Remembering

[grannyjill]

Do the home-owners know they've left us here alone to wreck the place?

Exactly! Poor Billy . . . he made the fatal mistake of trusting a washed-out junkie! :p

As for you, Jill: You're a top quality poet and I sense that you don't realize it. All kidding aside, stop dismissing your considerable talent and knack for wording and celebrate your gifts. Become one with the alphabet and robe yourself in th- okay I just couldn't go through with the lunacy, but for realz you're a great member(Even though you're user title only reflects the latter half of that implicit title)

I think I love you too!

Flippin' eck (another of my favourites) Where did that serious tone come from? (It's morning now....I had to get my cocoa and get to bed, it was almost 10 o'clock)

My confident skin is only a millimetre thick...
It shears completely off with the slightest hint
of disdain,
then I beat myself up, with a bicycle chain.
The wheels...hm, no...the weals take ages to heal
before I can feel good about myself again.
Why bicycle chain?...'cos I'm a victim of rhyme
(and because I'm a masochist. I like pain all the time)

I don't feel like a talented poet...the more poetry I read the more aware I become of my failings....but, hey, let's stop being serious. Talented or not, I love doing the creative thing...I hope that never leaves me.

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jill, I suggest you post your piece in another thread pronto, in case people miss it in the comments section. What a shame that'll be!

I like your piece, mark. At first blush it's cynical, but its actually more bittersweet and sad... judging by the title and the narrator's earnestness there is a desire to actually remember these women who struck him and that he's savored in some way, and there's a minor tragedy in that they do mean something to him but in the end they also escape him, like fleeting ghosts.

Hi, addy....what a lovely thing to say! (I may tidy it up and do as you suggest)

This is getting complicated...of course, this is Mark's thread so....I will back out quietly and shut the door.