DIGGING TO CHINA

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A revised version of it appears in my ebook book, Digging to China,available both on Kindle and as a PDF. It will soon be available as a limited edition chap book. To request a PDF or chap book, click here.

I remember one day

when I was a boy

digging a hole

in my best friends' back yard.

We'd heard--

being boys and all

and believing such things--

that if we dug down

deep enough

we would find China.

So we dug.

With

our

dirty

grimy

little

five

year

old

hands.

and by noon

we'd created

a hole

of about

six inches

into

the

hard

earth.

But--

being boys and all

we got bored--

and after lunch

we found a new obsession

and we no longer cared

if we ever found China.

all rights reserved. Copyright Justin W. Price, June 2011

PDXKaraokeGuy, also known as Justin W. Price, is an author with Sweatshoppe Publications, which will soon re-release his poetry collection, Digging to China. Additionally, the managing editor at eFiction horror and The New Bridge online newspaper.. Husband to Andrea, father to two dogs. writer.poet.baseball fan. tattooed. He is am amateur theologian with a rabid sweet tooth. He resides in a suburb of Portland, Oregon.He has a poetry book available for Amazon Kindle, and also maintains a blog, FirstBlog. His work has been featured in the Crisis Chronicles, efiction Magazine, The Hellroaring Review, the Bellwether Review, eFiction Humor, and the Rusty Nail. Please visit his profile page for more information. Thanks!

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