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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Pink Cape(R)


Intensify the early-morning moment a garbage
truck barrels down your street. Lift your arms
and wave fastidious, as if the city worker might

notice. A daunting task, rolling the trash can
behind the incinerator and trying to dump it in,
only to find your wife's pink robe collecting grins.

"Whatever works," you say, even though
it was an accident, your last-minute grab
of cover flying open like a cape.

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Poetic Inspiration:
Poetry Jam~ It's All in the Trash
PU Verse First~ Half & Half (3 stanzas, 3 lines each)
3WW~ daunting, fastidious, intensify

25 comments:

  1. hahaha....i want a youtube video....smiles...and also why i just take mine straight to the dump...which is only like 2 miles away...smiles...

    what a scene

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  2. Fun image in this one! Never know what will make for a real garbage day adventure! thanks for posting.

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  3. That is an amusing write. Light-heart and sweet.
    -HA

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  4. Too funny, Laurie! But so positive take of negative event! - Applauses!

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  5. I love it and if it didnt really happen, dont tell us, because it is too much fun picturing it!!!!! THAT is a man secure in his manhood! I love it.

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  6. LOL....A thumbs up for this, Laurie.!!! Too good..

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  7. Ha! and you made me laugh! well :D

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  8. I had the video in my minds eye and roared with laughter.

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  9. Laurie, this made me laugh. It is that 'wife's pink robe' that really cracked me up the most!!

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  10. We all know that morning rush when the servicemen come earlier than we anticipate. Fun imagery, Laurie.

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  11. This made me :) remembered Malcolm in the Middle and a garbage truck faux pas..

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  12. I can see this, really great picture that made me laugh! Well done.

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  13. OH I can just see this happening! you pulled me right in. Love it and collecting grins you did! Beth

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  14. oh hahahah It's a bird, a plane....nope- It's pink bathrobe man! Great take and have a lovely day!

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  15. Adorable! I'm sure this has happened on many a pick up day.

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  16. :-) I liked the way the poem sounded...read it aloud and how it matches the tone of the poem....wow!

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  17. smiles ... I love the image you've painted here with this cape and the lumbering truck and the frantic dash ... smiles...

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