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perfect family
written by jedinik05:47 PM 1/11/05Father sits down to the evening news
One hundred die in a bombing, the war ensues
Mother is in the kitchen cooking dinner
She glances at a book and dreams of being thinner
Brother plays football at the local school
In the summer he swims with friends at the local pool
Sister plays with dolls and practices ballet
She'll become a cheerleader at her school someday
Father does not look forward to work
He drinks his coffee, thinks his boss is a jerk
Mother stays at home and nurses the baby
She wants him to become a doctor just maybe
Brother wakes up and struggles through school work
After college graduation, he'll join his dad in his work
Sister, meanwhile, gossips with her so-called friends
Their petty, pointless chatter will surely never end
They are a perfect family, of a perfect race
The race of straight normality, the race without a face
They won't amount to anything, just struggle to get more
Each member is too busy to realize their life's a bore
One day in the family mini-van, on the way to church
A squirrel runs out into the street, the car makes a violent lurch
Father couldn't help but lose control
The van hit a tree and began to roll
The mini-van crashed into a large rock
There was no time to scream, all were simply shocked
Two minutes later, no life remained
All were dead, there was no pain
They were a perfect family of a perfect race
They srived to remain normal and remain without a face
Each day they did the same routine and struggled to fit in
There was no point to all their efforts, how stupid they had been |
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Author's footnotes and comments on this Poem:
I wrote this when I was 13 I think. I've always loved it though for some reason and haven't made any changes.
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| » Comments / Feedback | by yOur_bloOdy_vAlenTine (2-23-2005 - 04:12 AM)
| that is an AMAZING poem.... |
by Monkey_526 (3-1-2005 - 05:23 PM)
| befor you juge my poems you should rethink your statis you need more of a catch and you need to reed more of mine i think you have a little bit of something going on . |
by lilrocsychic (3-3-2005 - 06:15 PM)
| it is a good poem, but it's too stereotypical. it is actually the dream family... seriously, how many people really live like that? to start, the gurl, she was to be a cheerleader... only a minority of gurls are cheerleaders... technically they aren't perfect either... every family has skelitons in the closet, no matter who they are. but none-the-less, it's pretty good |
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