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poet Max Reif
What do you think this poem is about?

Vacation

from here
over the next hill
all the way to the horizon,
like a vast, green expanse,
nothing to do

but stay in my bed if I want,
TV on or off, read & write,
go down to the computer.

after a few days
—because somehow we're always travelling—
the horizon's changed,
scattered with famililar obligations.

Time, you burglar,
I can't even see you,
it's not a fair fight!

Submitted: Saturday, December 24, 2005
Edited: Saturday, December 24, 2005

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  • Tania S (12/28/2005 6:22:00 PM)

    Time is indeed an invisible burglar that we will try to chase to no avail... trying to freeze some precious moments so time doesnt dare erase them

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  • Joseph Daly (12/24/2005 4:34:00 PM)

    This could easily be looked at as your membership of this site Max, where every hour the horizon keeps changing. Obligations; I think there are obligations being on here, whether they be to ourselves (to present our work) or to others.

    i like the way that the computer is suggested as a time machine. Of course time itself is not universally real, what is morning to you is late afternoon for me (I think) .

    Brilliant piece Max. These were my readings of it. This is 'what it said to me'.

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