Thursday, February 4, 2010

55 for a "Healthy" Addiction?


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What gets you drunk as a skunk?


Glassy eyed, does the glowing room
become a sheer reflecting pool?

Clenching a dent in your head,
does smiling tetany melt you to muteness?

Does a speechless, slurring, stuttering tongue
stop you, slack open, in pooling saliva?

Do shaking alien appendages,
clapping and toe-tapping, eventually meet the beat?

(It's just a fine,
 live-music
 fix.)

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photo: my brother Dan of the Dead on Halloween with his banjo.

Friday 55 Fiction Challenge, write a story or poem in exactly 55 words, let G-Man know HERE

15 comments:

  1. Fun poem....rocking, Diane :)

    wishes,
    devika

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  2. I love when smiling tetnay melts me to muteness. Great 55.

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  3. Awesome 55! Playing music gets me drunk!

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  4. It has been a looooooooong time since I've heard music that could put me into that sort of delirium. Maybe I just don't get out enough.

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  5. nice. there is just something about live music. been to quite a few concerts in my day. great 55.

    mine is up!

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  6. oh, it does too... wonderment! nice one!!!

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  7. that is a stunning 55, it felt very much like addiction

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  8. Music?
    I thought you was speaking of Vodka!
    You sure it's music?
    Anyway...Excellent 55 Di.
    You Rock from Ukiah to Pismo Beach!
    Please have a Kick Ass Week-End...G-Daddy

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  9. That's my kinda drunk. You put a whole new spin on the question "What kind of clown plays the banjo?" Love it!

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  10. Music is my elixir of choice. Nothing beats the effect it has on me. LOved this 55. Thanks for visiting mine :)

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  11. I came by and read your 55 early this morning but didn't leave a comment. On second reading, I like it even more. Good job, my friend!

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  12. Ah, yes... music has the power to make dancing fools of the best of us.

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  13. Good one, Di....

    LOVE your brother's pic...love the 55...it's amazing the kinds of things that get us high...(*snork)

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  14. Interesting idea, the 55 word concept--fun take on live music. Your brother looks like a stitch!

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