I'LL NEVER TO ABLE TO AFFORD CABLE - spoken word poetry

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I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO AFFORD CABLE

The alarm goes off,
I leap to the dresser
and strangle it.

Outside, shades of grey
drizzle over the city
in bereavement for
the lightening storms
of last night.

Even the sky is hungover.

Through my window
the world looks
like and old black & white movie
on a cheap television set
with bad reception.

I hear a moan,
turn around
and gaze at her
sprawled across the bed;
makeup smeared,
eyes red,
mouth too dry to kiss
and not drunk enough
to want to
anyway.

I lay back down
beside the girl of my dreams
and think to myself:

It just doesn't get
much better than this.

Ever.

(David Randall Curtis)

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[LesDirect]

Really enjoyed the visual and the sensual your words and delivery created in this one. Yea. I reeallly liked it :) There is much to be said about those kinds of days....

[DavidRandallCurtis]

LesDirect: thanx very much. However, my blue bunny from France named Mone (see icon picture) demands that all future comments from you be made with your pink rabbit ears on - she feels she can relate better to you that way :p ---- thanks again for commenting.

[jevoshawke13]

Masterful.

I'd like to think that I can relate to this one.

-red

[DavidRandallCurtis]

jevo:  thanks for the kind words. I'm very sorry you can relate to it though :p

thanx again for commenting!

[araneus1]

So much atmosphere............

Thank you for adding to my day.

spider.

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Spider... thanx... i am surprised from the reaction to this... I almost didn't post it because I thought folks would be put off by it.... once again, my own work shows that I have no idea what I'm doing :p I appreicate yer comments a lot!

[samdougken]

mouth too dry to kiss

and not drunk enough

to want to

anyway.

Thanks.

[TheDaveFrom1952]

"Through my window the world looks

like and old black & white movie

on a cheap television set

with bad reception."

I have the same problem with my window.

Oh, how I wish I could come up with lines like this. Love the poem David - and rozeboosje's translated version too. 5 *****

[MyPunkGang]

great stuff

[EtaForsaken]

just perfect idea!

[xSadisticTormentx]

your words are so striking and vivid, and always leave me in awe.. thankyou for creating these wonderous poems, and for sharing them with us +5 StarZ+

[InmediasMe]

Raw, my friend. G o o d and raw.

Love 'em that way.

[LesDirect]

Uhhmm, we just completed a big move and I can't find them..pretty settled--but maybe they are in an unopened box--will try--but I may be sans ears in the next one..we shall see!

[araneus1]

It is so hard to know what people will like. But in the end it is more important that you are proud of what you produce. People seem to be attracted to passion (there is a whole thesis in the meaning of that word).

spider.

[TheRavenOfPoe]

You paint pictures with your words that are more vivid than most artists are capable of producing with their paintbrushes. I found this one expressed a bleakness to me that we all sometimes see in the world [even without the hangover, girl and alarm, hehe ;)]