Poetic License: January 2002 Online Poetry Journal

Running By Your House
On a Saturday
by Lippi Zaner

anywhere but here
by Audrey Hardwick

Zion
by Charles

Still My Dawg
by Torrence

Where is My Mom
by Nicholas Bateman

EXHALE
by Regina Stone

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anywhere but here
by Audrey Hardwick

all my life, i have been waiting
waiting to see the day
where the walls aren't so familiar
where the inspirations aren't my pain
can't get happy here - won't get happy here
because day in day out everything's the same
this town fills you up with emptiness
which only makes you look harder for a reason to stay
like chewing on a piece of gum
when you've been starving for days
anywhere but here is my favorite place to go
hard to describe this state of mind
but when you get there, you'll know
it's where boredom is unheard of
and anarchy's absurd
yet you feel a sense of freedom
finally free of apathy
that's constantly eating away at this world

-fayetteville has been swallowed-
-where shall you dine next?-

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