supple eddies of wind
caress and tickle the yellow
little matted heads
and their thin arm stems
shooshes it away
they stand firm rooted in packs
patchy green grass
sprinkled with crinkly caramel leaves
some dandelion families
those of five and six
adopt a stray apple tootsie roll candy wrapper
that found its way from Halloween
a few rebellious dandies flourish
in one and two and they grow up pretty hardy
before being crushed under a running boy’s tennis shoe
i like those that grow up nice and tall
with shiny pea green fuzzy stems
that little Mexican girls harvest on a Sunday
to place on the altar of the Virgin mother
when they end their day in church
then there’s the really rugged ones
with sparsely yellow tufts
they are angry little spiky things
surrounded by the trash cans
punctured by the littering
wrapped in sheets of rust
those end up having to bear the brunt
of needy cats and dogs
looking for a litter box
Love the descriptions through your magnifying glass 🙂
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thank you friend for visiting 🙂❣
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My pleasure!
Have just not had a chance to be on WP much lately. It’s nice to make a short visit 🙂
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Welcome back xo
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Thank you! xo
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Yup, I like Dandelions too. Perhaps I’m weird, and interesting.
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They’re very cool lol
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Why are dandelions classified as weeds when they look as beautiful as any flower…….and also grant your wishes when when you blow on them.
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Idk maybe those plant scientists were on T Leary lol lol
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You are very observant. You’ve capture and describe in such poetic honesty of our L.A. culture and echo park itself. Beautifully well expressed my friend.
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Thanks Charlie xo
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You are welcome my friend. 🙂
Question: Have you ate before at ‘monty good burger’? If so, how would you rate their food and service?
Do a lot of hipsters go there to eat? or not really? curious.
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Lol sorry friend I have not I’m an In and Out die hard
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hahahahaha!!! Thought I ask. My girlfriend and I, are thinking of trying out their delicious plant base burgers just to see what all the curiosity is all about. 🙂
I too, love In and Out. My girlfriend likes it but lately she doesn’t crave their food anymore.
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Bummer lol
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Okay, I just remembered now why my girlfriend won’t eat their anymore. She did tell me that ‘In and Out’ have been donating millions for Trump and the GOP. If I’m not mistaken. I started to remember now and I remembered the research I did.
Then again, I can’t help but good their delicious burgers. hahahahahaha!!!!
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As long as I get my own burgers I’m good no politics in my diet lol lol
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hahahahaha!!! Good one. hahahahaha!!!
I can’t help also to eat their fries and strawberry shake. 🙂 lol!!!!
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Gosh I’m getting hungry now
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My apologies for the hungry appetites. hahahaha!!!
Have you also tried ‘Los Burritos’? Next to kaiser permanente? I know they have one next to echo park where judd apatow did the Netflix series ‘Love’.
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I like the echo park one better…
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Really? My girlfriend and I, always go to the one by Kaiser. So the one by echo park is better? In overall taste and quality?
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I think so the one on sunset is kinda bland to me
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Okay, I’ll take your word for it. I’ll let my girlfriend know that her and I should go try ‘Los Burritos’ on echo park. 🙂
Also, have you ever been to ‘The Holloway’? next door to the los burritos place. Heard of it?
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I’ve seen it but not my scene… sorry it looks swank though 👍 try it out for sure
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Don’t bother. It’s too hipster. My girlfriend and I, tried it…the food was okay not the best. Plus, we felt the service and the sense they only cater to hipsters and not people like us. Which we’re somewhat consider goth. My girlfriend and I, wear a lot of black clothing.
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Oh yeah me too sorry to heat that, hmmm maybe I will go…have s little fun with the hipster crowd in s hood way though I’m never mean or nasty lol
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hahahahahaha!!! Show them what the hood is really like. hahahahahahah!!!!
Funny story: Couple of days ago, I took my girlfriend to Kaiser for her appointment she had. She wanted me to drive home all the way through sunset. As we drove by hipsterville. I told my girlfriend, they have a dentist? She said, well yeah. And I told her what if the dentist are hipster-dentist? When you walk in…the dentist has his long mustache. And he speaks hipster to you. Example: ‘Like let’s see those teeth and like we can totally clean them and like speak in like because like we ran out of things to like talk about. hahahahahahaha!!! lol!!! We started laughing hard.
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Lol
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I love all the picturesque imagery. Well done.
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thank you friend xo
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