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Poetry Assigment: phone book

December 7, 2008 by Amy

i thought about him
when I saw the stranger in the
brown coat buying tulips.

it made me think of the night
he gave them to me,
told me he’d never leave me.

he hadn’t lied.
i thought i’d known what i wanted
when i walked out the door.

so i went home
picked up the phone book
since i’d long forgetten

i cried when a woman answered
hung up
and threw away my tulips

See the poetry assignments here

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  1. Poppy says

    December 7, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    phone book regret? 😀

    I liked this very much, although, I feel very bad for the fictitious woman who threw away her tulips.

    Poppy’s last blog post..sook-say!

  2. UrbanVox says

    December 7, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    hey…
    she kinda looks very cute with short hair!!!!
    🙂

    ah…. tomorrow is the last day of the Drinks are on ME competition!!
    Go on… leave your comment!!!
    zya!

    UrbanVox’s last blog post..The “M” Word on wednesday

  3. tomtom says

    March 1, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    I think GPS phone is really the coolest device now. It can even show where you are walking on the map! 😀

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