The Gold Watch

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The Gold Watch

The Gold Watch

 

 

Lost my passport.

 

We have a safe

in the closest

which i have not

looked into for five years.

 

For two days i searched for

the combination which i had hidden

then I could open the safe to

find my passport so;

i could go to montreal.

 

found no passport but the

safe was filled with such

unvaluable crap even the

biggest bum of a thief would have no

use for to hock or pawn except...

 

a gold watch i forgot i even owned.

 

i bought it when i was 32 in 1989

it is an Ebel brand model 1911 with a black

face solid 18 carat gold. it felt

very heavy in my hand as i tried to

conjer up the mind i posesed back then

which told be that spending 11,400

for a watch was a good idea.

I could not, so i settled for the

notion that i had lost my mind.

 

I think I wore it twice in 19 years time.

it needed a battery.

 

then i began to remember

sitting cross-legged in that closet

with that stupid little safe;

the salesman at the time saying that

this watch was a good investment

and two years after i bought trying

to sell it back to him and him

offering me 900.00 or like

a friend saying he would featuer it in

the jewlery store front window

"used section" to get me a better price.

 

 

then i knew that he had screwed me

two years ago.

 

so i took my watch home

put it in the safe and there it sat for

17 more years.

 

i eat pizza and chinese food out of

white paper boxes and when i was

in montreal i walked 12,000 steps acoording to my

cousin michael pedometer, about 6 miles

at night wandering in and out of

french speaking neighboorhoods

talking about this and that and the other thing

and this was like gold.

 

so i never had a use for this and that

old young mind is lost but i do know

that the price of gold is at an all time

high about 800.00 per ounce so i took

it to work and weight it on the

postage scale and it weighed five

ounces with the guts in it so

i figured 4 ounces of pure gold

or 3200.00.

 

that jewlwery salesman was such an asshole.

 

 

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dcain54 commented on The Gold Watch

07-04-2009

I am still laughing....this piece is priceless (literally!)

RHPeat commented on The Gold Watch

07-04-2009

I love this story, but I think the form it is in is wrong for the presentation. I think it should be more of an epistle (letter) or a prose poem. I think that the contents of the poem would be easier for a reader that way. Also I really don't see any major reasons in the contextual presentation for the versification. Most of the information of the contextual just flows like prose anyway. And the poem is carried by the metaphors on values of things and feeling at heart. So again I think the form would be stronger as a prose poem or an epistle. I posted some information on the prose poem on the boards under a entry by Lightcourier. I think he called it (prose poem) if you want to read it. I also have a entry on the challenge board which no one has made any entries on which is called (Epistle). There is information about that form there. Either one would be stronger for this poem in my opinion. Nice piece nonetheless. A poet friend/ RH Peat

laydbak1 commented on The Gold Watch

07-04-2009

Couldn't help but, chuckle as I read along through this story... Ah, the life's lessons we have no clue about until a lot more life has passed by that we're more able to put it all in a better perspective... No idea why thoughts of those three shoe boxes full of original baseball and football cards I once kept as a boy popped into my head... I still wonder where those got off to... Another great write here my friend...

Poetry is what is lost in translation.

Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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