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I think Deryk was onto something with his reply (#6) above. Your piece reminded me of the Beatles as well, but "A Day in the Life," not "Yellow Submarine." The specific line in the song that came to mind was "He blew his mind out in a car." (I was so callow when that song was a big hit, that it took me a couple of years to realize that the line didn't mean shooting oneself in the head!)
In this one the driver/speaker is obviously hallucinating, right? I don' want to sound callous or anything, but depite the violent imagery, I had a vague sense that it was comic. I always worry when I say that a poem is funny, because occasionally the author did not intend to be humorous at all! (It's like asking a woman when her baby is due and she's not pregnant!)
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Thanks Aunty - The only serious poems are when the author contemplates the death of a close other (be it love, animal, something tangible, or whatever) and tries to find matching imagery
If the imagery isn't funereally mournful you feel quite safe in regarding the intent as lighthearted, if not necessarily laugh out loud - just a bit on the dark side with a side salad of gruesome and weird
Or war too - war's usually serious
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.... and one of my favourites :D
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Can we read this one again? This is a good one.
J
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And thankyou once again Jacko :)
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I have missed this, thank you JHeart and thanks MystyrM for writing your colourful, rich, wonderfully flowing a poem...!!!!!
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this one... yes! Interesting and contemporary !
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How much Jack of Hearts loves this poem is impossible to put into words.
J
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I guess it was car pile up but yet sound zoo or aquaria had join in. Great poem and image are wonderful.
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Thank you, Jack of Hearts, for bringing this back from the, um, dead! I missed it the first time, and Mystyr! It is awesome! Love the imagery, the surreal feeling one has when you know something terrible is about to happen.
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