The Seer (Chapter 10) Poem by Kim Barney
The Seer (Chapter 10)
"Anyway, " he continued, "I didn't know
about the bet until afterward, and
my dad was really furious with me
when I didn't win the game."
"But you didn't lose, either, " I said.
"Shouldn't that mean that the bet is
canceled and that neither side pays? "
"That's not how it works, " he said.
"The bet was that I would win, and
I didn't, so Dad still has to pay."
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The next day I went to Charlie's house
before sunup because we were going
to walk up to Water Canyon and go
fishing. He wasn't outside waiting.
I gently tapped on his window,
thinking he must have overslept.
There was no response. I looked in
the driveway and the family car was gone.
I didn't feel like going fishing alone. I
walked back home and put my fishing
pole away. A few hours later I noticed
a U-Haul truck in front of Charlie's house.
(To be continued)
EXCEPTION: This chapter and 11a are really one chapter. Poem Hunter has apparently started new size limits and I had to break this chapter into two parts.
Just find chapter 01, read it and then click the 'next poem' button, which will get you the next chapter.
This is a work of fiction, although some of the people and places (and events)are real. Charlie is a fictional character, totally made up. I have never known anyone like the person he is described as being.
(This chapter was written in Recife, Brazil,20 September 2015)
Recently I noticed a couple of typos and tried to correct them. When I pushed "submit" I got this message:
THE POEM CONTAINS NOT ALLOWED WORDS. PLEASE CONTACT US.
I did contact them and they said they would get back to me "soon". They never did. So then I tried submitting a couple of paragraphs at a time to find the offensive words. When I got the message above again, there was no way any of the words I just added could be offensive, so I decided that PH must now have a size limit on poems. I submitted this chapter in two separate sections and had no problems.
30 March 2019
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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9/20/2024 12:42:02 PM # 1.0.0.1119
interesting your personal fight with machines I avoid unwanted sound tracks by leaving the sound track off permanently. My personal gripe at the moment is YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED DUPLICATE COMMENTS which is never the case.