When asked if I am home
By those I don't wish to be around
I say that I'm about to leave
I say that i am about to leave
somewhere I know they can't go
Due to the fact
I also have no clue where it
Is that I am going
or when I get there if I'll stay
So instead I say
I'm out of town
Somewhere no one
Would look for me
Or for who I was with
Because I'm with him
Him being the one
Who has shown me these new places
Where we have made
many new memories
In every way possible
He completes me
And it is him
That is the view
From out of town
Because he is home
Away from home
When I am not there when
Some one knocks
Or rings my doorbell
Or puts their ears up to hear
If anyone is there being silent
Is anyone there trying to be quiet
I am not home in my home
But I am home when
I’m With him
Wherever I turned
a cloud of flies in front of me
blotting out day, blocking my way
rubbing their legs, buzzing away
leaving me nothing good to say
Was there no solution
to the atmosphere’s dissolution
Seeing none, I doubled down
~ tried out my frown in a different town
Mamdani’s bankrupting New York
Chicago’s Mayor’s a big dork
They both raise taxes
Each city collapses
In every road there’s a new fork
Will miss my souper friends
But need some beach time
Need some sun and fun
Seafood and junk food
Vacation is on the way
Will return on 5/29/10
I can smell the salt spray
Just got to get away!!
what happens when the tagged go out of town?
you pick another; another clown.
someone who can use their wit
and let the rest of us get on with it
so i guess i have another pick
so here goes a great pick
carolyn guess what? your it
your begging for a chance so this is it
use your skill to write us this bit
and tag someone else
who's poetry we get
don't get the dizzy
and don't get the lame
get someone who can play the darn game
let someone know that their poetry is game
and we get a kick out of seeing their name
Carolyn Devonshire
get em!!!!
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