SPOOK HOUSE (a "true story" little poem)

SPOOK HOUSE

my older brothers bent over backwards

and most earnestly goaded me to jump

out of the moving spook house car

if I wanted to really see something

in a secluded realm neat and bizarre

they claimed they already had

and had snuck a gratifying adventure

they just badly wanted me to

trip up and win a head-to-toe suture

or maybe rid of me altogether

to get lost in the dangerous dark

to get run over or shocked into nether

on a circuit of high voltage spark

and then they wouldn't have me to

embarrass them, as I did.

a gullible dodo bird joke

Peter Joseph Swanson

Comments: 24

Peter Joseph Swanson Apr 24, 2008, 5:58pm EDT

oooooohhhhhhh

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Peter Joseph Swanson Apr 24, 2008, 6:07pm EDT

When I was really little I didn't actually think that my older brother was trying to get me to kill myself on a carnival ride but now I really do have to wonder.

ha ha

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

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Marge H. Apr 24, 2008, 6:10pm EDT

So many things I could say here, none of them very flattering to your brothers. I really hope you have a better relationship now that you are all adults.

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Peter Joseph Swanson Apr 24, 2008, 6:13pm EDT

We don't talk - but I don't think that has anything to do with the carnival coming to town way back then.

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Trista (Break this bittersweet spell on me) W. Apr 24, 2008, 6:13pm EDT

So cute. It's amazing what older brothers talk us into. My brother talked me into going out in a field and hold my hand out for target practice with his be be gun. Not sure how. But then again I can be very gullible at times.

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Carol Lloyd Apr 24, 2008, 6:17pm EDT

Great story!

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Vivian P. Apr 24, 2008, 6:41pm EDT

hey I'm not real close woth my sisters either

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Peter Joseph Swanson Apr 24, 2008, 6:43pm EDT

the lousy *&%%^%

ha ha

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Melanie S. Apr 24, 2008, 6:50pm EDT

Reading this kind of stuff makes me sometimes feel lucky I did not have older siblings.. In fact I was an only child until almost 15 years old when I was blessed with two younger step-sisters.

eeek some of the horror stories I hear about siblings!

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Susan N. Apr 24, 2008, 7:01pm EDT

Yeah, You've gotta question your brothers motives.......
My little brother was lucky to survive too........I didn't REALLY try to get him killed, it just seemed like it at times!

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Paula C. Apr 24, 2008, 7:03pm EDT

I have three younger brothers. I can't imagine them ever doing anything like that to me or each other.

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Monica H. Apr 24, 2008, 7:33pm EDT

OUCH!! Brothers and sisters. My four year old daughter pesters her brother all the time. I could see her doing something like this to her brother when she got older!

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Monica H. Apr 24, 2008, 7:34pm EDT

That was a funny poem!!

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Kay M. Apr 24, 2008, 8:32pm EDT

Oh no! This story ( and the coat you are wearing) is reminding me of Joseph and the coat of many colors. Glad you didn't jump. I always closed my eyes in the spook house.

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