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Abandoned Places

May 15, 2017 by Kenneth Hart

Abandoned amusement park
Rides are free
Someone already paid-

The “Experience the thrill!”
Sign made people go wow
Stuck in a pile of fun house glass
It just reads “Experience” now

Lemonade stand
Skeletons are real
Doubt is just a sour thought
Circumventing our deal

With no engine, the train starts up
Lights still blink and bells still ring
With nowhere to go
This little train still thinks it can do anything

Roller coaster cars remember
The clickity clackitty rise
And the free fall drop
Under an open sky

In back of your eyes
It doesn’t stop
The clackitty rise and free fall drop
The anticipation of rise and
The elation of the drop
Experience
In an abandoned amusement park

Fortune tellers beware
There is no future here

The cotton candy apple air of youth
Wandering in
Abandoned amusement parks

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