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By Misti Date: 2001 Aug 19 Comment on this Work [[2001.08.19.15.05.13834]] |
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Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die: Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. ~Lewis Carroll We've been having fun all summer long (so says Brian Wilson) Taking calls from irate AARP members smelling that East Texas Gulf Coast stench doing laundry at Mom and Joe's buying new potatoes and plums and peaches from the farmer's market in Bridge City driving to the ocean under much duress watching "Spinal Tap" for the dozenth time ironing Hawaiian shirts eating Goodart's Peanut Patties drinking Sonic Coca-Cola but don't be afraid of the world we made on a hot summer night (so says Billy Idol) I'm glad I'm not Baby I'm glad you're not Johnny there will be no cheese no badly written drama no good-bye it is more than understood that no one puts me in the corner turn off the phone and the machine we don't need sunscreen for our midnight full moonlight drive come on baby, gonna take a little ride down down by the ocean side (so says Jim Morrison) so many myths exploited so many arrows slung we aren't young and innocent and pure anymore but three nights and days me sail the sea me think of girl constantly (so says Louie Louie) lollipop, lollipop everday it's gettin'further away no more roller coasters no more walkin' in the sand take my hand and walk with me through fields of fallen leaves colored by bad chemicals |