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Yellow Ribbons (Voyages II)

by Elizabeth Shaw

Then it would happen all over again;

I would have a melt down
over the voyage of our marriage;

The promise of a life together
stripped of flesh and bone and scripture jewelry;

This two page bleeder in a paper chalice
kissed by the hands of justice
always left me knock-kneed and perforated;

Had I just licked the bottom of a carrier pigeon
who had ripped me - a years worth of pizza coupons;

Stamped IOU ONE IOU ONE IOU ONE
and broadcast it all around the world!;

Sure they may have denied his passport
revoked his license
if they knew where to find him;

Did they think I need reminding?
shrink from guano in a sanitary napkin?

I'M A GROWN WOMEN!
I've seen hundreds
thousands even!

Don't matter what colour
they wanna dunk it on television -
it's all verbal diarrhea to me;

His commercial - their commercial
everybody knows them yellow ribbons
are long past their good 'til date;

Eleven years running
since I've wished upon a ticket master
to unite my boy with his Father.

12/09/2013

Posted on 12/09/2013
Copyright © 2024 Elizabeth Shaw

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Steve Michaels on 12/10/13 at 03:49 AM

"Had I just licked the bottom of a carrier pigeon who had ripped me a years worth of pizza coupons; Stamped IOU ONE IOU ONE IOU ONE and broadcast it all around the world; " SUPAHchocolate!

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 01/23/16 at 09:29 AM

Dearest Jane. your uniqueness is showing. and what can I say, but your phrasing's amazin and your voice, your voice your voice, your beautiful voice, surely keeps the choo choo on the rails and is quite the fuel for the journeying home, home home home where the heart is and the quill and the ink and the parchment and and and the will to see and to think and to feel and push the filament of the soul through the eye of the storm.

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