flashquake Poetry
Third Place

flashquake
When the Music's Over
by David Atkinson

People’s souls are too great
To squeeze into small
Plastic boxes
Or silver
Discs.

I like my music big,
78, 33, 45,
Dressed in black vinyl,
Love and lives etched
Onto a single groove.

© 2002 by David Atkinson

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