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EARTHQUAKE Man o man o man o man
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that’s it!
we’re going in
everybody in California ready for a swim
hot dog
DID YOU FEEL THAT!!!!!!
starts out as this little roll
you kind of feel it the ground
churning
under your toes
and that native California instinct says
hold on baby
we’re having an EARTHQUAKE
and it comes on
stronger and stronger
till you can Feel the waves in the ground
I’m not kidding
and then you feel the big jerk
spasm from somewhere close in the earth
and then the boom
and then the entire building bounces
all around you and
you wonder if the plate glass window two feet from your
head is going to explode
and you stop breathing
and all I can think about is
MY POETRY IS NOT SAVED TO DISK
and it rolls and rolls
and then
slows
and then there is some shudder rolls
and
you hope wherever this thing started that everything
is ok
and you hope that it just centered itself over nobody
and that everyone is just giggling and nobodies trapped
or worse
and then you start calling
kids
husband
friends
did you feel
have you heard
where is it
is everything ok
man
boy howdy
that shakes up a person donit
we just got shook up out in Californiaaaaaaaaaa

I don’t think I’m breathing yet
man o man o man


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Reviewed by the phantom pheonix (Reader)
Reviewed on January 23, 2003
For a seriously powerful intense emotional poem like this I could not help but laught at the thought of you wondering if your poetry was saved onto a disk

Reviewed by Larry Skahill
Reviewed on January 13, 2003
on the east coast we call that ~sex~

Reviewed by Katy Walsvik (Reader)
Reviewed on January 12, 2003
Yikes! ... felt like you wrote this 'on the spot' and man o man.. you brought me in on this one! Talk about 'reality bites'! All present and accounted for? Where's the dog? Great 'you are there' write, Josie! katy.

Reviewed by Lady Peg (Reader)
Reviewed on January 7, 2003
Josie,
"
I don’t think I’m breathing yet
man o man o man "
Very vivid write.
Of excellence.
Peg

Reviewed by Sara Coslett
Reviewed on January 7, 2003
Yikes....that was really descriptive Josie. I am soooooo happy I live in Florida. Just out of curiosity, did it make you feel more alive?

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on January 7, 2003
This is when I'm glad I'm in the Northern part;-)hope that was the last of it...you sure made us feel like we were there with your descriptive expertise;-)...

Reviewed on January 7, 2003
WOW, josie, glad you're okay...please take a breath, don't wanna have to call 9-11. :0 living in california, you expect the earth to rock and roll, don't expect 'em other places...in 1980, i was in a 5.1--IN OHIO, of all places...i was sittin' at work, after a particularly bad afternoon, takin' a break, sittin' in the s.w. corner of this restaurant, and the wall behind me started movin' in and out. i'd had my feet on a chair...put my feet on the floor, the floor's movin' back and forth. *oh crud--methinks i've worked one too many shift, or else i'm goin' nuckin' futs.* didn't think much about it...thought it was trucks goin' by on the highway! later on, called mom...she asked if i'd felt that earthquake we'd had. i remember exactly what i said..."EARTHQUAKES??? ma...ohio don't HAVE earthquakes." oh, yes we diiiiid...that's the weirdest feeling in the world. the ground ain't supposed to be movin' like that...'course, i'd much rather be in a quake than in another tornado...been in three of those bad boys...lost my roof in the last one...you can have 'em. gimme an earthquake any day! unless i'm on a bridge...heeellllppppp...((((HUGS)))) and breathe in, breathe out...breathe in, breathe out...love, karla. :)

Reviewed on January 7, 2003
yo glad you are okay, but PLEASE start breathing, or they're gonna' have to send the paramedics after you and have 'em revive you one! good, intense write! i have been in an earthquake once..in OHIO; it was 5.1, and i DEFINITELY felt the sucker! it was back in 1980, and i will NEVER, EVER forget it! i hope NEVER to be in another earthquake! it scared the CRAP outta' me! YIPES!!! :0 love, your friend in texas, karen lynn. ((((HUGS)))) :) *BREATHE, honey*


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