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RESCUING BOO-BOO
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School burning down
molten lava spewing thru
melting desk and book
I rescued Boo-Boo
childhood teddy bear
leave classmates to die
School burning down
molten lava spewing thru
melting desk and book
I rescued Boo-Boo
childhood teddy bear
leave classmates to die
This terrifying poem reminds
This terrifying poem reminds me of a short story by Theodore Sturgeon entitled, "The Professor's Teddy Bear." It is about a sickly child who sleeps with, and wakes up to, a teddy bear possessed by an evil alient entity. It appeared in a collection entitled Tales Of The Unexpected, which I purchased in May of 1971 while on an overnight class field trip to Put-In-Bay. It was a collection of ghost or macabre stories, and "Teddy Bear" was one of the most terrifying. The collection is hard to find (but would be well worth the effort), but the story is available on the internet.
Starward
I found an old notebook where
I found an old notebook where I was writing down my dreams. I fashioned this poem from a late teen dream.
Even at my age, I can still
Even at my age, I can still remember a couple of my teen dreams (and I don't just mean the people I had crushes on, lol). And the most famous teen dream in literature happened in Geneva, Switzerland, when a nineteen year old English girl, homeschooled and very shy, awoke suddenly from a hideous nightmare, her heart pounding. By concidence, the friends with whom she was vacationing, had. several days earlier, proposed an informal contest of writing a ghost story (the month of June had turned out to be very damp and rainy, so they had amused themselves by reading aloud from a book of German horror stories; and when they got to the end of the book, the game was proposed by their host). The English girl began trying to describe her nightmare on paper, thinking it would amount to a short story at best. Over approximately a year and a half, it became a novel. Her name was Mary Shelley, and her novel---the first of about five or so---was entitled, Frankenstein, and has never been out of print. The anniversary of the nightmare was just last week, June 16th.
Starward
a number of my poems are
a number of my poems are drawn from dreams. The Batman Dream or the Child Catcher are dreams from my youth. I'm working a crafting a dream based on a recurring dream about graduating from high school. Mary Shelly certainly produced a masterwork with Frankenstein.
Wow
Disturbingly powerful. If Rod Serling wrote poetry, perhaps.
A vote cast for the long, downward spiral suggested by social genetic theory. Survival of the fittest. Among humans, the fittest are often those who can hurdle over the bodies of others.
thanks. Really just based on
thanks. Really just based on a dream I had when I was around 18, 19