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someday this isolation will end and freedom will mean going places (thank God).


 

(a Senryu string poem)

High school girls are just
thoughtless and vague - too damn 
dumb to be afraid.

Trusting too quickly
- believing things that are said
- unaware of risk.

Small and powerless,
chickens cooped from feral foxes
- peaches for picking.

So accompany
me on walks, to the store and
guard me like a penny.

Look - we're women
- junior grade - and conscious
of dark potential.

Breasted Americans
face a dark rainbow of threats
- we are mortal.

But ANY of us can
encounter unscheduled evil
like nightmares from hell.

Yes, that means you rough
tough males who glide through life as 
if untouchable.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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Date: 12/18/2020 10:29:00 AM
In the 1950s, I enjoyed going to Baton Rouge on Sundays just to see the women dressed in pastel gowns with matching parasols walking to church. What a different world we live in today! Stay safe! Aloha! Rico
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Date: 12/18/2020 11:22:00 AM
Wow, to bad you couldn't capture that on your phones back then. You too - stay safe =]

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