Totally Optional Prompt: Keep right except to pass
Today during Journal Writing in block 3, I gave my kids the prompt: You’re listening to the radio. I decided to write to this prompt, too, since I’d tried to write to the TOP during blocks 1 and 2 but nothing was happening. Wouldn’t you know, the minute I stopped trying…
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You’re Listening to the Radio
It’s a transistor radio
propped up
on the dashboard
of your family’s
1964 Ford station wagon.
“Hang on Sloopy” is playing
and your mother asks,
“Is he saying, ‘hang on stupid’?"
Mothers! you are thinking.
You are fifteen,
your mother doesn’t want
you dating yet,
or kissing, even.
You glare at her
as if she has just said
the dumbest thing.
She turns her head
and looks out the window
as your superior smile
slides right by her.
7 comments:
I love poems like this, it feels like a stolen moment of time.
Arggh. It just happens, doesn't it? Great slice of time.
"as your superior smile
slides right by her"
terrific
sister AE at
Having Writ
what a trip down memory lane this is... thank you!!!!
I loved it! It took me back on time!
repainted pathways
Love this, Linda and totally agree with Andy, a stolen piece of time.
Very well done. And, things I 'mis-hear' often become the core of the next poem.
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