Rowan Dunfey
Hope
Submitted by unusualsuspects on May 8, 2008 - 19:23.Like a fallen star from the sky of elsewhere
He arrived
In a new place
A new country
A new home in a new sky
The person who was going to meet him
Wasn’t there
And he wondered if anyone was wishing
On him, the lone shining star
Standing alone in a train station
TELEVISIONMAN
Submitted by unusualsuspects on May 6, 2008 - 12:44.TELEVISIONMAN
By Rowan Dunfey
Richmond Middle School, Grade 7
And then,
as if a switch had flipped in his mind,
It dawned on him -
crashed down on him
like the world upon Atlas -
That he is just that man,
That television man
That bluesuithaircut television man
Who says what the teleprompter tells him to say
And feels what the teleprompter tells him to feel
That things are bad, but then again
He doesn't know bad like they do –
Only knows
It’s a lot worse
Than his bad –
But who knows?
When the world drops
off of the shoulders that have held it for so long
Will it be him that gets
Shaken off?
TELEVISIONMAN
Submitted by unusualsuspects on May 6, 2008 - 12:44.And then,
as if a switch had flipped in his mind,
It dawned on him –
crashed down on him
like the world upon Atlas –
That he is just that man,
That television man,
That bluesuithaircut television man
Who says what the teleprompter tells him to say
And feels what the teleprompter tells him to feel,
That things are bad, but then again
He doesn't know bad like they do –
Only knows
It’s a lot worse
Than his bad –
But who knows?
When the world drops
off of the shoulders that have held it for so long,
Will it be him that gets
Shaken off?
