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After The Day After MAG
When I was maybe nine
I would lie awake nights
staring fearfully at the deep-navy
dome of starless sky
and I followed the progress
of each plane as it
blinked hauntingly past my windows.
I heard some as a strident snarl, but
some were just twinkling lights
just like stars, really,
except for their inexorable passage
across my view.
And the fear took my hands
and balled them into
nervous fists
and held my eyes so wide
they ached,
even though I knew it was silly,
too silly to disturb my parents with
so late.
Each plane I thought
might hold a strange
and powerful bomb and could
maybe unleash it
on my town
and everything would vanish
in a fascinating orange-radiation-glow
just like on t.v.
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teeninkwasspilledhere BRONZE said...
on Feb. 9 2011 at 10:55 pm
YEah! I always felt that way, too! That was beautiful; keep up the good work!
teeninkwasspilledhere BRONZE said...
on Feb. 9 2011 at 10:54 pm
No offense, Paig, taht's not a verey nice ending to your comment.
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