DIGGING TO CHINA
If you like this poem...
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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