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Business Suit
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It's funny how people can change so drasticlly(sp). A poem about people who were once liberal, and poetic, and now walk the streets of the Mundane uniformed in a business suit. Not a teenagey, angsty thing, it's more mature. Summary doesn't do the poem ju
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Drama/Poetry - Words: 216 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 09-16-03 - id: 1401282
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"Business Suit"

I saw you today
Though you did not see me there
I saw you today
Walking through the overcrowded pigeon pens
Of the city
You held your head high
And side-stepped the young poets
And artists wasting their life away
You shot them a disapproving glare
That could have frozen the symmetrical pinstripes
Right off your business suit
And sent them flying away like floating flower petals
To another time and universe entirely

A time where we sat
In our freezing one-bedroom apartment
And discussed Kafka over
Volcanic proportions of hot chocolate
Flowing from the cup like lava

I saw you today
Walking with a purposeful air through
The over crowded pigeon pens
And though you did not see me there
I could have sworn I saw a bit of longing
In your withering, abject glare.
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A/n-- I hope you liked this, please tell me what you thought, or how I
could make it better.

Yes, I am FINALLY posting again; I've been gone too long. There's
something inspiring about Algebra class that makes me want to write poetry
and NOT pay attention. Heh heh.

I also updated my bio, people were starting to wonder whether I would be in
8th grade forever.

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