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Never Again

Sitting in chairs

All in a row

Like ducks at a shooting gallery

Each one of us hoping

It will all be over soon

You hear a child

Screaming in the background

With such pain

And horror

In her little voice

For what seems like forever

You wonder

What could cause such pain

For such a little dove like her

I hope and pray

That I never have to go back

To the laundry mat

— hobo, May 28, 2010

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hobo

hobo

16 years ago

Never Again

I work away from home and go home on my days off and one day I had this bright idea instead of taking my cloths home with me and washing them there I would just run down to the laundry mat and wash them there. I never made that mistake again lol. I hope you like it. Randy
Seren

Seren

16 years ago

LOL I had to giggle at this

LOL I had to giggle at this one Randy I think we have all been somewhere at sometime where we wish a screaming child could be calmed lol great slice of your life I like the different turn you took with this one .. nice move love JayCee x x x ("Quote:-For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.-Ivan Panin")
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poewriter58

16 years ago

Randy

for such a little dove like her what do you think of for a little dove as she ah yes worse than that the supermarket something seems to be missing from this poem and I can't put my finger on it The start of your poem actual is so somber such as that would be at a funeral , then you have that twist of an ending Chrys
judyanne

judyanne

16 years ago

hi randy

so loved this i did took me back to days of long gone thank you love judy xxx http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/TwentyMyPrettyPonies.html
xena465

xena465

16 years ago

Dear Hobo

I used to love the laundry-mat. I would buy a comic, crisps, a milky-way bar and a can of juice and chat up any good-looking guy who happened to come in that didn’t have a clue how to operate the machines, Alas, that was a long time ago…nice one. Rosina xena465
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years ago

Dear Randy

OMG... I thought this was going to be about some torture camp or something! Then you whack me over the head with this surprise ending! It has been a long time since I washed my clothes at one of those places, but I remember... Always, Cat
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years ago

Talk about a piece close to

Talk about a piece close to my heart, (I too went there, Cat!) my machine died and Barry & I went to a laundry mat. (I was agitated, lol!) It was the same one that my girlfriend & I would go to with my toddler. She kept us entertained and we all entertained each other & shared the story with him. Ah, when simple things were pleasure. Thanks for the flashback. ~A p.s. Had another image pop up: I heard a little girl throwing a screaming temper tantrum in the store I was shopping, much later I found myself behind her and her mother in a checkout line, she still carrying on. I snapped off a branch from a flower plant I was purchasing and gave it to her. She looked at me as if I had 3 heads, threw the flower down and continued her merry ol' screaming. I learned something that day. haha. "Just as what you dream is your own and no one else can observe it, so the world you see is your own." ~ Nisargadatta
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scribbler

16 years ago

never again

The horror of combat....over a dryer.Very witty ........scribbler