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I am a white African. Contradiction in terms? I think not. Sometimes my blog will be serious; sometimes sad; sometimes irreverent; sometimes witty; always my truth simply written.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Alice D

Black snake
heaved
breathed
slithered
while he straddled it's
speckled spine. Then,

rearing, it's eyes
blinded his
with piercing noon sunlight.

Tortured metal
screeched
sheered
dismembered
as he drove head-on
into the eighteen wheeler

end of trip
 
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4 comments:

  1. Really good one! Thanks for explaining the title to me. Cheers.

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  2. Thanks for reading and taking the trouble to comment Mary. As far as the title goes, it is so subtle (I think) that people who are not drug aware would miss it altogether... thus clubs like the Alice D I told you about could flourish until eventually someone in the drug squad clicke...

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  3. Catherine, this one is so powerful

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  4. Hi Jebbi, Thanks for popping in. I tried to capture the effects of a LSD hallucination, without ever having experienced it thank God, and to some extent I think I got it right...

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