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Question: I'm experimenting because I can!! I would like to know your thoughts!?
There are many ways to take this (well, probably less than four), and I would like to know where you take it, if anywhere at all!.


Captain eyeball has locked your letters
in the white room for now
and you cringe at the shadow
of allusion this impostor has
flung!.
Your mechanical manacles are rotting
at the bottom of a wishing
well!.
CHORUS: Give me a sign!
waiting for
fortitude to drop the bucket
and draw the chains back
into the light
of a sold-out
show!.
CHORUS: Give me a sign!
dead rose moon sun soul
over and over
again
CHORUS: Give me
a
sign!.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Somebody of authority(dead or alive)is watchin your ever move and you are scared that he might come back!. This authority figure is already dead but you are afraid!. You thought that your life was over but it hasnt died yet!.This person caused you great pain!. and you are waiting for you soul to be revived out of the pit of the well!. The sign is there but you arent willing to grab on to it!.The light is there but you are afraid to grasp the chain of light!. The show is over now its up to you to rise above it!. Now you are wanting a sign but its there in front of you!.!. Its up to you to recognize that sign!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I have no idea what this means, but I like it!. The only thing I'm not so keen on is the CHORUS: parts!. I don't think there's any need to say that and it distracts from the poem!.

Actually, could this be about a magic show!? Houdini or some magician's assistant!? Or Judas!? (throwing away the 30 pieces of silver)!. I dunno, I'm probably way off!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I am taking it to a Professor I know!.!. of Abnormal Psychology!. I figure he will have a field day with this!.!.

Okay seriously now!.
The first two lines had me thinking about writing and the struggles I am having to set 'pen to paper' so to speak!.
After reading it a second time, it fits totally!. Everything fits!.
Weird!.
(me, not you!.!.HA!)Www@QuestionHome@Com

writers block- you threw your pen in the "wishing well"
now your setting on the wishing well making strange noises and faces as you break out into the chorus waiting for a drop in the "bucket"

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Please change allusion to illusion!.
It sounds almost like a man wants to be a pugilist, but awaits his place and time to come forth!.!.!.!.!.
Very different but definitely thought provoking!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I take this to my friend's studio, an empty loft, except for the hundreds of canvases he's painted over!.!.!.!. and over!.!. and over

(Over is his chorus)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Writer's remorse,
and a bad case of it, too!

*smacks ya upside the head*
there now, there's your sign!

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Wow! You gave enough signs, even for those out of the CHORUS!. I'm waiting for the C Locker's response!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hold me! I'm scared!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

A Picasso in words!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Ode to YahooWww@QuestionHome@Com

what the!.!.!.!.!.!?!?!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

My tentacles are going crazy!. They like what they read here!. Yes, give me a sign!. ?Www@QuestionHome@Com

The whale and the Albatross they are my brother!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i'm just a guppy swimming in the sea!. guessing here!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

aye, is this talk like a pirate day!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

My thoughts!? What!.!.!.all of them!?

(Better pull up a chair!.!.!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Would you drive a taxi for a living!?
You remind of the one
I use to know years ago!.
He could write and talk like you,
he had monikers on the side
A wall of them!.
He gave me
my first Bukowski,
my first Burrows
We talked and drank
for hours at a black leather padded bar called The Black Swan!.
Stools and a brass bar no tables mattered!.
He liked scotch,
JWB,and Black Label beer!.
we sat, black and red
scotch bar and beer talk
He was a writer who thought he drove cab!.
I still have all of his letters and notes!.
The last book he gave me was
Fowler's Modern English Usage
He was a draft dodger from Iowa
his name was Johnny DeStrucktoWww@QuestionHome@Com