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I Am Stephen

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Form: Disjointed Double Verse

Can you guess who is Stephen?

Can you not see? All the ducks inside your arm? Did you think hotel paradise, Came with no illusions attached? Violins and rats Rats and violins Conductor in a white suite Playing musical roulette Slow motion squirrels a symphony Dancing death on my head Hotel paradise is the rats meow Old couches and peeling paint The evil Mickey mouse is really quite quaint Oh Susanna sings in this hotel Ethiopian Nelly checked out long long ago Dear friends and gentle hearts I pass on with 38cents in civil war notes With 3 cents to spare Bury me amongst the minstrel songs Among quiet flowers gleefully listening I have composed stately song As I decompose, My epitaph shall say Beautiful dreamer down below I lie in my suitcase Ships are made for sinking Whiskey made for drinking I am Stephen but who am I? Form: Disjointed Double Verse Can you guess who is Stephen?

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Laura Breidenthal

Date: 5/30/2015 1:41:00 AM

LOVE it, Arthur! I like your play on words with compose and decompose. : ) Watched the video as well. Super cool! Always, Laura

Arthur Vaso
Date: 5/30/2015 10:02:00 AM

Why thank you so much Laura!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/15/2015 11:00:00 PM

Reading it again, I caught Oh Susanna in there this time. I don't really know many other titles of his offhand!! But yes, I know he had many many songs!!! thanks for letting me know!

Arthur Vaso
Date: 5/30/2015 10:01:00 AM

Billy Jones

Date: 5/11/2015 9:15:00 PM

this was definetly inspired, but you gave it a touch of life for sure, sometimes a little muse helps very much ~_°

Arthur Vaso
Date: 5/11/2015 9:26:00 PM

Thanks Billy, much appreciated!

Cherl Dunn

Date: 5/11/2015 8:52:00 PM

Arthur wow what a poem, all I can say is Wow my dear friend what a powerful write, simply deep and meaningful, cheri by the way look to my postings if you scream for ice cream, lol cheri

Arthur Vaso
Date: 5/11/2015 9:01:00 PM

Thank you cherl!!!!

Emile Pinet

Date: 5/11/2015 7:43:00 PM

Your words speak in an elusive abstract voice that supplies the catalyst to spark further thought and thus decipher Stephen Foster's name from the trail of clues you left unsaid. Emile. #7

Arthur Vaso
Date: 5/11/2015 9:00:00 PM

Thank you Emile!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/11/2015 3:49:00 PM

I am really bad with puzzles and riddles, so I will not be playing the guessing game, but I can see your writing talent is really strong in this poem, Arthur! Good one. (loved the way you said rats meow. hahaha)

Arthur Vaso
Date: 5/11/2015 3:53:00 PM

Poesy Relish guessed right away! The Ghost of Stephen Foster, you can youtube the video, and for sure you know, the father of American music! ( you can wiki Stephen Foster, but you will know his music for sure!

Constance La France

Date: 5/11/2015 5:54:00 AM

Arthur, wow, what a lyrical write, so deep and so profound with all those wondrous lines , I like so many but "beautiful dreamer down below" really struck me, 7, and thanks for visiting my poem, Jacqueline, My Mother

Arthur Vaso
Date: 5/11/2015 9:02:00 PM

And thank you Broken Wings!:)