New Jersey Neighbors


from the ABC set Poetry

Bowling pins
The old American kind
Dinted from some fast spin in 1959, a girl
With her eye on the time
Skirt out like a frisbee
Dating a guy like you
If you hadn’t been somewhere else
Looking blind

Three pins
Set out in calculated rhyme
Three dollars at the yard sale in a line, a kid
Like Dustin Hoffman
Braced with an eye on the prize
Dating a girl like you
If you were younger and half as wise

Dip – dive

Plundering the front yards of America

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Comments

Kilb50 | September 24, 2009 - 18:13

Enjoyed this...particularly liked 'Dinted from some fast spin in 1959...' could feel the weight of those old pins! Good work!