Pearl Shop

While on an Eastern beach,
you might see,
among trash and seashells
she is fishing,

With the grainy sand at her feet,
and the salty sea breeze,
she is,
casting out, with her daydreaming,

And she searches the horizon
Scanning for a vessel, to escape from
Her isolation, on her sleepless island

Take a scooter down, a dirt bend
with clay stained red,
up a tropical hill to a place,

Where web-footed dogs chase,
girls in pink dresses, they compete for

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poem by Jordan Crider
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TV Guide

i was a television hosting a cartoon,
on early saturday mornings, to take away your blues,
i was your comedian on those rainy afternoons,
giving you a smile in a soothing room,
you were so young with your painted dreams,
an idealistic boy, you wanted to keep them,
i watched you grow and thought 'perhaps',
you'd be the sower with the perfect hem,

i was a television hosting an empty screen,
'cause you grew older and lost time for me,
i was your comedian without a jokes,
for you to hear under you counseling yoke,
you were so young with your textbooks,
stitching useless knowledge in place of your dreams,
i watched you learn and thought 'someday',
you'd have the time to finish sowing,

i was a television hosting a commercial,
while you slept to regain energy,

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poem by Jordan Crider
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