She comes from Rodeo drive she's a babe bent on the starve
skipping school with a slip that serves her the right to leave
a park bench cradles her bony butt
she peels a banana and tries to eat
STOP! she hears as she reconsiders,
maybe she isn't thin enough maybe she needs to purge?
He sidles along with a chill against his collar bone
thin as a rail he eats only crumbs from a dumpster
the park bench is a bed for his head
a reprieve from the boisterous bunch
HELLO! he says, but her eyes are stones
maybe she'll share maybe she'll give me a bite ?
Life is such that we can't always do what the soul asks us to
Life is a turntable with grooves that repeat us til' we go blue
A robin lands on the bench and gives out a little frozen tweet
She hands him a chunk of banana , suddenly their eyes meet.
November 21, 2018
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Once she wished she was big, tall and scary
with a large body that was very hairy.
If she was large she could run ‘round and play
And she could make long trips most every day.
But she could end up being someone’s meal
So being big might not be a good deal.
Instead she was small and thin as a rail
She had big eyes, but she didn’t have a tail.
With her long legs, green body, slender wings
Her camouflage was a beautiful thing.
Since she could perch very still on a branch
The bugs passing by would not have a chance.
She prayed “Thanks for hiding me in a tree
Where now… I’m so happy just to be me”
She watches her child as he writhes in pain, knowing each treatment is all done in vain. Everyday her child gets weaker and closer to death, wishing she could give him her only last breath.
The doctors had told her he had only months to live hope and prayer were all they could give. Each day he got weaker, skin so pale, bones so weak thin as a rail. Then a miracle happened the doctors were in awe, amazed at the awesome sight that they saw.
A powerful light appeared around mother and son, the power of god had healed her little one.
Ragedy Bones
Ragedy Bones was an old, old, old cat
Thin as a rail with no sign of fat
Deaf as a doorknob with a keen sense of smell
Twenty plus years from what I could tell
Calico colored, she followed the sun
From window to window and when she was done
She’d curl into a ball with her head upside down
And fall fast asleep until someone came around
Then slowly she’d get up and stretch just a bit
Climb up on your lap to see if she’d fit
Around and around and around she would go
Then just walk away if it wasn’t just so
Her “Meows” just got louder year after year
Due to the fact that that cat could not hear
She couldn’t digest what a normal cat ate
So she had special meals on her own special plate
Yes, Ragedy Bones was an old, old cat
With a lot of things wrong but in spite of all that
Ragedy Bones right from the start
Earned a permanent place right there in my heart
My sister-in-law's cat - still hanging in there in spite of all her problems
my niece Bess
hangs her head
not in shame
over her head
married too soon
macho man
4 month baby
overwhelmed
where did she go
disappeared into motherhood
thin as a rail
wifedom
tail between her legs
a young girl who should be singing songs
on stages
around the world fell for
lust and a redhead
a burly bossy handsome man
whos charm for me was transparant
but then
I've seen him before
and this was her
first time.
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