Damaged Goods

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    • travisd76
    • Been on a hiatus for awhile, but I'm back and have the itch to write some poetry.

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    This is a poem about how after my fiance' and I had our baby, she went to visit her parents and never came back. I have been not only battling custody issues, but the feeling that I can never love or trust again. I'm kinda damaged goods now.

    Damaged Goods

    I feel like the bread
    at the bottom of the sack
    all squished and flattened
    and the store won't take me back
    I'm damaged goods now
    but its not from what I did
    it was the cans you stacked against me
    while over there you hid
    I didn't see it coming
    I was happy as can be
    just sitting in the grocery bag
    when the cans fell down on me

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    tenderpoison commented on Damaged Goods

    06-07-2009

    I don't believe I've ever seen this allegory/metaphor before..but it is exceptionally apt...those damned careless baggers, forever crushing the fragile goods.
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    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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