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greenbean
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Shots

Post by greenbean » Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:57 am

“hahaha, the man is alive”
flying, diving, crashing -- 

yet he comes up and does another
lining up all of the shots
down one goes in rapturous glee 

“oh, what a jolly good show”
popping pilots into splotches in the sky
mixing the streaks of white
into a red smudge 

crumpled up ones not worth a hundred
cracking up with delight

Dave
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Re: Shots

Post by Dave » Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:44 pm

Hi better than your last poem in having more concrete visuals and context but still somewhat obscure for the uninitiated. Seems to be about drugs again or drink or both pleasing sounds

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Re: Shots

Post by Dave » Sun Sep 16, 2018 11:45 pm

Or computer game

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Wren Tuatha
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Re: Shots

Post by Wren Tuatha » Mon Sep 17, 2018 12:36 pm

greenbean wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 8:57 am
“hahaha, the man is alive”
flying, diving, crashing --
yet he comes up and does another       dive? line of cocaine? 
lining up all of the shots                  booze? drugs? bullets? 
down one goes in rapturous glee
“oh, what a jolly good show”
popping pilots into splotches in the sky         war?
mixing the streaks of white
into a red smudge
crumpled up ones not worth a hundred
cracking up with delight
This feels very exciting with action, drama and psychology. I'm not sure I'm inside it, in terms of what is exactly going on. Maybe back the lens up just a smidge.
 

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Mark
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Re: Shots

Post by Mark » Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:34 pm

Reads like unedited SOC writing.

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