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I Will Not
by Alison McKenzieThis is not your playground,
Jungle gym to climb,
Ego to strut,
Social mysteries to be solved.
This is not your classroom
Science of Love 101 -
Theories to be written and disproved,
Chemicals to mix,
Results charted for future generations.
This is not your slab of concrete,
Jack-hammered design
Trodden and crushed into flat,
Fit for speed.
This is not your family,
Your child,
Your future.
This is not your destiny.
And I will not. 08/06/2008
Posted on 08/07/2008
Copyright © 2025 Alison McKenzie
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Charlie Morgan on 08/07/08 at 03:23 PM ...uhhh, this is a wonderfully[if you will] treatise on the bygollies of what it is that one/you will do and carries a heavy maul...and that's goooood! and the sway of the pome, then the kickin' last line...beautamagorgeous... |
| Posted by Joe Cramer on 08/07/08 at 05:00 PM excellent... I am curious as to your inspiration..... |
| Posted by Melissa Panther on 08/08/08 at 07:44 PM I love what you've done here, "not" repeated makes this so powerful...=) |
| Posted by Tony Whitaker on 08/09/08 at 04:46 AM I don't know, I kept hearing Bowie's "Suffragette City" as I read this a second time. Wonderful piece with such an intensity of standing by one's standards. |
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