I spent my childhood being enraged
...I spent much of my childhood being enraged
Fairness mattered to me
I was a kindness advocate
Deploring bullies, liars and thieves
Good thing I did not know about sex trafficking or rapists
I c...
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Categories:
tailfins, anger,
Form: Free verse
My Dream Car
...1959 pink Cadillac with tailfins
It was gorgeous, and cost five hundred dollars
A fifteen-year-old boy drove thirty miles to buy it.
He had been saving money for four years.
1959 pink Cadillac ...
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Categories:
tailfins, car,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Remember Then
...I remember when soda pop was a nickel
Same for a double strawberry popsicle,
Back then the best cars had long tailfins
We did silly things for “sh*ts and grins,”
Turned-up collars and...
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Categories:
tailfins, childhood, growing up, memory,
Form: Couplet
1959 Pink Cadillac With Tailfins
...1959 pink Cadillac with tailfins
It was gorgeous, and cost five hundred dollars
A fifteen-year-old boy drove thirty miles to buy it.
He had been saving money for four years.
1959 pink Cadillac ...
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Categories:
tailfins, car,
Form: Prose Poetry
Going West
...Once, a hundred cigarettes
glowed in just one cinema.
Arrows flew yet all were near misses,
random unaimed bullets easily knocked over
bunches of whooping Comanches.
Some horses were shot unse...
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Categories:
tailfins, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pinkie
...Pink as a baby’s bottom.
Pink as 1960’s Bazooka Bubblegum
Pink as Barbie’s Dream House
Pink as a 1959 Cadillac with chrome tailfins.
Pink as a perky, pretty, popular, pizzazz-y petite preteen.
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Categories:
tailfins, girl,
Form: Free verse
Clickety Clickety Clickety Click
...Strappy white sandals with heavy heels
Clicking on the hood of his
1959 Pink Cadillac with the pink tailfins
Tappy Tappy Tap Tap Tap
If you think I am cute, your eyes can clap
Clickety Clicket...
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Categories:
tailfins, dance, nostalgia, relationship,
Form: Free verse