when i was a little kid i wanted x-ray glasses and sea monkeys but mostly x-ray glasses i wanted to know exactly what grown-ups were thinking what was going on in those oversized skulls why the long blank expressions and why they never listen i thought the x-ray glasses i bought were broken cause all i saw was nothing no matter what angle i looked nothing but nothing i thought maybe those swirls were just painted on cheap plastic lenses a total scam! all grown-up now and i know exactly what is what i know precisely what goes on in these oversized skulls and it’s nothing but sea monkeys
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jalopy dreams 
I wanted sea-monkey and x-ray glasses too! I actually sent away for the sea monkeys. They were, well, not quite as advertised. Basically, they were small shrimp and they died almost right away.
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well i bought the glasses, which was no better than sea monkeys, but kid has to blow his money on something=) thanks qbit
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Some things are better left to the imagination. It’s sad though when we see reality. for what it is.
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better left to the imagination, so true, but we have to grow up somehow, thank you truedessa
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It’s disappointing once we leave the world of x-ray glasses and sea monkeys.
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yes it is, but nice to remember how youth from time to time. thank you
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what an interesting child – deeply perceptive and already the poet in embryo. loved this poem – wry humour and the way you rounded it up with sea monkeys
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thank you laura, glad you enjoyed this
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Another poetic peek into a talent quite unique. Cheers!
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thank you helen =)
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Sea monkeys!!! It is always sea monkeys!! I absolutely love this Phillip!!
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thank you carrie, glad you liked this
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I love this poem SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! Nothing but sea monkeys indeed. Smiles.
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thank you sherry, glad you enjoyed it
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oh my! All those childhood hours spent reading comic books come back to me! You know, every Xmas i tell hedgewitch that I’m sending her sea monkeys. Anyway, yeah adults never listen, and worry about the lamest stuff. My older brothers have always considered me a scatterbrain but i think they’re bores. they could use some sea monkeys or x ray glasses or some Owsley or something. Me, I have carefully kept alive my inner 8 yr old, and I’m glad.
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i’m with you shay, i’m never growing up, i’ll vote and pay taxes, but that’s as far as i’m willing to go. glad you liked shay
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“i know
precisely
what goes on in these
oversized skulls
and it’s
nothing
but
sea monkeys”
I love this! The disillusionment of growing up and finding out there was nothing special and all the adults are full of it. You capture this so well.
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thank you jyp, so glad you liked this
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This is a direct shot, phillip. There’s no winding around or being casual with words–tho that can be fun, too–everything is just laid out like beads on a string, one fact, one truth after another. Shay and I have a running joke about sea monkeys, as she notes, but I think every child deprived of a pet, of something to love and care for, because children really want to do that even if it’s a little more than they can really handle– wants them. Full of insight without a single preach, this is one of my favorites of yours.
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thank you joy, glad you liked this… feed those sea monkeys!
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Just wonderful, Phillip. I love the contrast between your tone which is matter of fact and yet your words offer so much beneath it. I actually found it quite moving. Beautiful accompanying image. Well done 💕
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thank you sunra
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When I was a kid x-ray glasses would have been fun. But I didn’t even know about x-ray until I broke a metatarsal in college. We lived in rural Nebraska and I didn’t go to doctors, neither did the rest of the family. My Grandmother didn’t either but she went to a chiropractor instead. He killed her because he didn’t diagnose her anemia.
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This is wonderful stuff. It gave me a good laugh at breakfast time.
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thank you suzanne, glad you enjoyed it
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