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Condemned

May 19, 2015
By jacmac919 SILVER, Boulder, Colorado
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Pavement bleached as white as bone
By countless angry rains
An abandoned chocolate ice cream cone
Coloring the concrete with stains

 

A shopping cart rolls fast away
Baby seat rusted shut
A driver's license, here to stay -
Glued to the ground with gum

 

A line of stores
With boarded doors
And hundreds of empty shelves

 

A family of bugs
Chews through the plugs
Like ugly destructive elves

 

At dawn a line of bulldozers
Will come and knock it down
As if it never happened
As though it had never stood proud

 

And one day a man might walk there
And never known it had stood
He would never know, and never care
He never ever would

© Gary C., Pequannock, NJ

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Summer16 BRONZE said...
on May. 20 2015 at 7:44 pm
Summer16 BRONZE, Coronado, California
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I really like this piece because there are so many things vaguely described and it gives the reader an opportunity to picture their own things and create their own images. The rhyme scheme was creative because sometimes you had one and sometimes you didn't, which really went with the theme of making it the readers own and them personalizing it.