Poemetics: Suspiciously Cute, Ode to a Total Stranger

By Emerson Freedman

Poemetics: Suspiciously Cute, Ode to a Total Stranger is a collection of urban poetry written by Emerson JS Freedman, originally published on the Darker Zeus website.

Poetic themes range from near misses during the mundane everyday commute, such as in the titled piece, Suspciously Cute, Ode to a Total Stranger, through dealing with loss of a family member such as in Discombobulated, through to enjoying every day nature in Market Lane Horses or By The River.

Please feel free to visit the Darker Zeus website to leave your comments or feedback on any of this poetry or the other prose published online. Feedback to authors is like applause is to actors, food for the soul.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Emerson Freedman
• Release date: Jan 31, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458133526

Emerson Freedman

Emerson Freedman is an author, poet, and blogger who currently earns a living making sure computers don’t make too much of a mess when they fall over, which is a lot harder than it sounds. He is currently living in a cozy flat (apartment) in a pretty little suburb of London with his daughter, fiancé, two dogs, one cat, five fish, a half dozen spiders, and a rampant imagination. He is hoping you enjoy reading this book enough to give the next one a go when it comes out. Oh, and you can follow him on his mostly-poetry blog. Killer App is Emerson's first full length novel.

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Poemetics:

Suspiciously Cute, Ode to a Total Stranger

by Emerson JS Freedman

Published by Emerson JS Freedman at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 Emerson JS Freedman

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Table of Contents

1- Suspiciously Cute, Ode to a Total Stranger

2- For Maya, the Danish, and Her Truest Love

3- Discombobulated

4- Mother Bear

5- The Paperclip at the End of the Rainbow

6- The Day I Forgot To Be Sad

7- Cracked White Ceilings

8- What is Love?

9- Market Lane Horses

10- Tired

11- By the River

12- Chance Encounters

13- Sunday Evening

14- Vapour Trails

15- Richmond Cyclist Girl

16- Broken Humachine

17- We Wish

18- words drip like acid

19- new beginnings

20- now free

21- the ride

22- the edge

23- This

24- remnants

25- Still here, now where?

26- When all games are done

27- Breathe easy sigh, for tomorrow comes, without where or why

28- Let’s play charades

29- Potatoe potahto

30- Even Flow

31- Memory’s Burn

32- Notes on Suicide

33- Anthrax at Starbucks

34- More Darker Zeus

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Suspiciously Cute, Ode to a Total Stranger

I did notice something suspicious,

As I traipsed up the stairs at Ealing Broadway,

The announcers words still ringing loose in my ears,

If you notice anything suspicious,

And I did, she was 5 foot 5 with dark brown hair,

Liquid blue eyes, blue jeans, trainers, t-shirt (I’ve

Already forgotten the colour), but

She did make eye contact, more than

Once, on the train from White City, and so I smiled

Because the announcer’s metallically repeatable voice,

Hemming us in to the dull painless fear

Of being blown up by disgruntled lonely militant men

And women while we travel to and from work,

Watching the ebb and flow of our lives,

In the ever-increasingly empty threats