MeeAugraphie

Lunaniña gives us ten words to free associate each week as a meme, Unconscious Mutterings. Why not play along each week? Click here.

1. Crook :: no more
2. Career :: fanatic
3. Freckles :: cute
4. Scramble :: golf
5. Mistake :: made
6. Telephone :: number
7. Thank you :: I think
8. Obstruction :: of justice
9. 24/7 :: nightmare
10. SciFi :: movie

I did not like the words much this week, but I do like where they took me, but I wish there were none like he or a mirrored she, but I am sure there are, somewhere, out there….

Now, the meme itself ended with just doing the free association, and that alone was fun. But I like to do something with the words. Today it is a poem. I try to not skip a word and use them in the same order and tense as above.

Parent Fiction

He was a crook no more
if his police record were checked
only a career fanatic
thriving on each step up the
corporate ladder
straight to eternal hell

freckles dotted his cute kid’s nose
but only mom knew the total count
for she counted them out loud each
bedtime
and in silence each sleepless night

his scramble:

to reach the golf course
his play but to close a deal,
to correct a mistake made
by an underling,
to garner the telephone number
of the woman that danced on the bar.
to remember to say thank you
to the doorman who knew
who was what or where
for five or five hundred
depending

those were the counts he knew.

I would say it was an obstruction
of justice that he came home
rather than spend 24/7 away,
for the nightmare
was not that he couldn’t count the freckles
but that he saw parenthood merely as
a Sci-fi movie, something to be watched
not lived, not real

and yet he chose to stay.

MeeAugraphie
09/30/07

Please, if you do the meme, remember to link back to her site, thank you. My words are my own, please do not copy, thank you.