The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 4/15/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Mom and Dad

Gentle readers, feel your naked belly button where
you were tied to your mother. Kneel and thank
her for your jubilant but woebegone life. Don’t
for a moment think of the mood of your parents
when you were conceived which so vitally affects
your destiny. You have no control over that and
it’s unprofitable to wonder if they were pissed
off or drunk, bored, watching television news,
listening to country music, or hopefully out in
the orchard grass feeling the crunch of wind-
fall apples under their frantic bodies.

Jim Harrison

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RL

[blueraven95]

1. morning,

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[RetroLounge]

6. ...

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RL

[Chorophyll]

2. I can say with some certainty

that there was no country music and no orchard.

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[RetroLounge]

8. Hee...

Add orchard to your to-do list...

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RL

[Chorophyll]

16. Hee!

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. I was probably a BackSeat kind of conception...

:shrug: :D :donut: :hi:

[RetroLounge]

9. Nice...

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RL

[BlueIris]

4. Nice. nt

[RetroLounge]

10. yes...

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[FedUpWithIt All]

5. My parents were barely 16 and 19 when i was concieved.

It probably happened in back parking lot of the local Big Boy. :rofl:


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[RetroLounge]

11. Yay Big Boy!

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear Retro!

Mine were newlyweds, and I was conceived in a Murphy bed, in their apartment in Buffalo, NY!

Great poem, BTW...

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[RetroLounge]

12. And born in Ripon?

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RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Yup, born in Ripon...

By that time, my dad was teaching at Ripon College!

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[RetroLounge]

14. It's a beautiful town...

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RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Isn't it?

I got to visit there many years ago, when I was in Chicago visiting my daughter...

Since I'd never gotten to see Ripon (left there as a baby) I drove up and spent a day in the town...

How different my life would have been if we'd stayed there...

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