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Hiding In The Bushes

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The man in the bushes sees many things.
He sees a dog chew on a dirty shoe,
a small child trying to ride a red wagon by himself,
Two people talking about Communism for some reason,
a man scratching his genitals,
thirty birds flying in a random formation,
a red volkswagon beetle,
a child riding an electric scooter that runs out of batteries,
and a dog scratching his genitals.

The man in the bushes makes sounds
to the people on the street.
He makes bird sounds and they frighten the children,
He shouts swear words and the adults power walk away,
The dogs responded positively to woof sounds.
At one point, nobody was around,
so the man just yelled random noises.
He made cat calls to some passing woman,
but they didn’t respond much to a screeching cat.

The man in the bushes interacts
with the people in the street.
He walked up to people,
and said “Hi. That is my shrub over there.
It is where I live. I eat meals there.”
He would likely never see those people again.
The children looked at him with shocked looks.
The dogs just run away.
Meeting people is so hard.
I wrote a prose, didn't like it, but I liked the title, so I wrote this poem around the title.

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Wicked-Faerie's avatar
Hello! I will be doing a critique on your poem for the group LitCritiques.

I had trouble understanding this poem. It seems like you threw things together and it's a random mess. If this was made for comedy, I could kind of understand that. Was this a venting poem? Something to simply get your thoughts out in the open? Maybe it's just me who doesn't understand it, and for that I am sorry. For some reason, however, I feel a bit insulted. But again, it could just be I don't understand what you were trying to convey.

That's is all. I look forward to later works. Perhaps I will understand better if I read more of your work.