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Legless in Lexington
by Joe Fleckenstein → (All Poetry by Joe Fleckenstein)
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This is a stand-alone poem, not included in my book. One of the strangest compositions I've ever penned. Copyright 2004 by Joe Fleckenstein.

I used to be a resident of
Lexington, Kentucky
but lucky I was not,
my body left to maggots and rot --
in a secluded, forested grave.

My family possessed platinum and jewels,
yet that did nothing to save me,
there was no appeasing my kidnappers,
I lie buried beneath a tree.

I was already, “Legless In Lexington,”
that’s how my personal ad ran,
but my abductors were fanatics:
--I didn’t fit into God’s plan.

Why they hated the handicapped
I never knew,
I still had full use of my brain,
I wasn’t a vegetable or a mental
Deficient,
only an old veteran whose limbs had
gone lame.

Leaving my corpse behind I
Ascended into Heaven,
it was actually a Waiting Room of sorts,
populated by Spirits both Human and
Alien,
five thousand races tuned into competitive sports.

Why they gathered around a television
I really couldn’t fathom,
how they all appeared alike;
ghostly blobs lacking flesh or material,
a cosmic fraternity unconcerned with
weight or height –






--or money or power or
political orientation,
their only obligation to their Creator,
Doctor God,
who supplied them with soccer,
football, basketball, and an
infinity of games –

Each would undergo examination,
by the Universe’s Ultimate Physician,
whose judgment was mercifully tame…

---

I had a feeling that all would be okay,
even for those Kidnapping Insane,
as death is the only proven cure,
for our temporal condition of “Pain.”


 

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 Reviews of "Legless in Lexington"
Reviewed by Kenneth Seay
Reviewed on September 12, 2006
Very interesting poem! I agree with the Kentucky part a know a bad people from there.

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on August 7, 2005
very powerfully written emotion applied through vivid imagery and a deep desire to make sense of it all ...

Reviewed on August 5, 2005
Raw. Disturbing. Honest. Painful to read. I felt your anger, sadness and bitterness...because I, too am a disabled vet in pain. A courageous admission and write--well done!

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla. :(

Reviewed on August 4, 2005
powerful, honest, and deep felt write; very very well done!

it is sad how people treated the disabled (and still do!)! i am physically disabled myself; i have had to put up with people's insensitivities all my life; but i am a fighter, and i will not let their cruel comments or stares govern me! i am trying to make something of myself; give me a chance, and i will surprise you!

(((HUGS))) and love, your friend in tx., karen lynn. :(

Reviewed by Lisa Hilbers
Reviewed on August 4, 2005
This is quite the mirror to look into. Sometimes our minds take us where it knows we wouldn't go on our own.
Honest; and true to heart write.

Lisa

Reviewed on August 4, 2005

An impressionist composition of deep felt emotions,
this prose-poem, "Legless in Lexington" is a touching
thoughts' striker.

Justice, Courage and Humanity.


Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU


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