A Poet's Progress
By Fox-Trot-9
12. Picture This: Out on a Limb
(12/8/08)
I strolled down the street in some block,
And haply did I step on a cell phone,
As a shoelace flopped itself on my head.
Then to my ears came an unlikely yell
From above—"Sorry 'bout that!"—attracting my
Head up, which to my eyes revealed a kid.
This teenager illegally climbed up
A telephone pole, pulling down cell phones
From live telephone wires—this guy is nuts!
To him, I yelled back, "Get down from there, kid!
You wanna be arrested or something?
Hell, you could die there; you do know that, right?"
"Yeah, I know," he replied, "but I'd rather
Get my stuff back than let it rot all day.
Now you do understand that, right, boy?"
"Just get down from there!" I now demanded;
Just then, a jolt of voltage ran through him,
Frying off his grip from the pole and phone.
And before I could react, his body
Landed upon me with cell phone, shoelace
and all, knocking me to unconsciousness.
When unconsciousness elapsed into light,
I saw a crowd of people around me;
I suddenly knew I'd been sleepwalking.
(To be continued...)
A/N: I know it's weird; this piece was an assignment where I chose a random picture—in my case, it was a magazine picture with some kid up on a telephone pole grabbing onto a cell phone that was hanging from its shoelaces on the telephone wires; think of an old pair of shoes thrown onto the telephone wires with the laces tied; I think the picture was a ad showing that normal cell phones were obsolete or something—and from that picture, I tried to write a scene about it in poetry.
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PoetryGenre: Poetry. Summary: This collection contains my poetry during my freshman year in high school. It's a record of my development as a poet and as a person told in a collection of poems. I used different poetic styles throughout this collection in...
