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In Absentia

Sucked by the worldpool, coffee grown stone cold.
Parchment pages rustle where the stairs unfold.

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  • Ellis gold member
    July 20

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    This is EASY -- Tiki Cat

    "Sucked by the worldpool, coffee grown stone cold.
    Parchment pages rustle where the stairs unfold."

    Because I'm a CAT this is clear to me.
    The world is a pool table with black hole pockets.
    It's all matter-in-motion, don't you see?
    Like when coffee's made when plugged into wall sockets.

    Pages of writing preserve the wheel's history,
    That stairs were invented before the wheel was.
    So this is the correct meaning of this whole story.
    "How do I know?" you ask. -- "Just because."

    Tiki Cat


  • cricketjeff gold member
    December 11, 2008

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    They mean you found the joy juice

    Great stuff!!



    Jeff


  • Melodies
    December 10, 2008

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    Oh, how filled with chilling images, good person. This poem takes place in a haunted house. It has been vacant for a long time and there is a broken coffee cup smashed on the kitchen floor. Shocking!