tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9531030.post-21727133504733989822008-07-24T20:28:00.000-07:002008-08-07T20:34:12.916-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://amommystory.blogspot.com/2007/09/haiku-fridays.html"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/1338959961_a93cf33414_o.jpg" alt="Haiku Friday" width="150" height="117" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">俳句の金曜日<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(note: my bachelor has 2 syllables because it can, just saying</span>)<br /><br />It's hard to believe<br />that my sweet sixteen summer<br />was twenty years back.<br /><br />Yet I'm still creeped out<br />thinking about that one night<br />we spent with the ghosts.<br /><br />Ever hear of it?<br />Bachelor's Grove Cemetery?<br />Um, OK, <a href="http://www.prairieghosts.com/bachgrov.html">click</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_Grove_Cemetery">these</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.graveyards.com/IL/Cook/bachelors/path.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 460px; height: 112px;" src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc117/maggiesmindblogpics/Misc/bachelorsgrovewarning.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"Grown up" kids are dumb.<br />A bad idea, plus a car<br />equals not so good.<br /><br />I didn't believe,<br />but still, it's so damn creepy,<br />we stayed overnight.<br /><br />Just a few hours,<br />suspension of disbelief,<br />cigarettes and lies.<br /><br />Tired minds see things.<br />Real or imagined, skin crawls.<br />Fear always feeds fear.<br /><br />Did that branch just move?<br />Did you see a flash of light?<br />Are we here alone?<br /><br />When I look back now<br />I'm afraid for us back then,<br />not because of ghosts.<br /><br />I see the dangers<br />being in the wrong places,<br />too vulnerable.<br /><br />(There's more where this goes,<br />with the same guy, same summer;<br />I'll tell it. Someday.*)<br /><br />In the morning light<br />we headed back to the car<br />(the car where he lived).<br /><br />Uneventful night<br />inside the cemetery<br />but not outside it.<br /><br />A broken window.<br />The creeptacular factor<br />was not lost on us.<br /><br />*someday came sooner than I thought, and I <a href="http://maggiesmind.blogspot.com/2008/07/haiku-friday-8108.html">started to tell the rest</a>.<br /></div>maggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17084143630207764529noreply@blogger.com