Your First Lesson
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| ILLUSTRATION BY SAM NIEL |
YOUR FIRST LESSON
Pride was the first to fall away
when lives were tossed aside
in favor of the tawdry.
Thrills are cheap. At first.
Safety costs more
than you can afford.
If you do not take
you will be taken.
Welcome to the streets, little one.
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This Quadrille (44 word poem) was shared with those falling down poets over at DVerse Poets.
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That’s a different angle on pride before a fall, Chris!
ReplyDeleteThat is a lesson for the city jungle... eat or be eaten
ReplyDeleteLillian here....not Anonymous. Can't get that to change?
ReplyDeleteThe last line is a punch in the gut!
All of that sounds very fair. Life in the jungle is harsh (Jane Dougherty is not anonymous)
ReplyDeleteI like this different take on the prompt. Nicely done poem.
ReplyDeletePoignant...safety costs more than you can afford...great take on the prompt.
ReplyDelete"If you do not take, you will be taken"... so stark and yet so believable in this tale that you told fully in only 44 words. It's dark and memorable.
ReplyDeleteooh that hits the mark. a dark reminder of human nature
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween! ✌🏼🎃
ReplyDeleteGratitude for you my friend! 🙂🫶🏼✌🏼🍂🍁
ReplyDeleteWowzers, Chris... This one is so raw and real. So real.
ReplyDeleteMuch love,
David
SkepticsKaddish.com
Lesson of the streets. Raw!
ReplyDeleteChilling. Well done
ReplyDeleteStreet smarts or the law of the jungle. Whichever, it's brutal.
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely brutal out there! Powerful write 💜💜
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