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Streets and Filth

September 26, 2014
By poetz BRONZE, Menlo Park, California
poetz BRONZE, Menlo Park, California
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Favorite Quote:
"Good luck"


No matter how much it rained,

the streets smelled rotten to

those who are in them

 

For a handsome, clean man

to walk in, he will come out

an ugly, putrid grotesque figure

with an attitude like a wolf

 

What you hear in the streets

is crashes, shrieks, bangs, growling,

crashing, and crying

 

Those who are alone in the

streets, will get a life lesson

from those who have lived

in the streets

 

What you will see in the

streets is broken beer bottles,

groups of people who carry weapons

with deadly looks on their faces,

filth everywhere, and rabid stray animals

 

It all seems like another world

where the rotten are clean and

the clean are rotten


The author's comments:

What made me think of this is that this is what I first think of when I think of a street and for my parents telling me it's dangerous


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on Sep. 29 2014 at 6:51 pm
LaurelPeterson BRONZE, Snohomish, Washington
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Favorite Quote:
Time spent with cats is never wasted.<br /> -Sigmund Freud

This poem is great. It's super descriptive.