Van Saun Park is melting in the dark
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Spring was never waiting for us girl, it ran one step ahead, as we followed in the dance...
Am I the only person in the world who thinks "MacArthur Park" makes perfect sense? Most people seem to think that Jimmy Webb was smoking funny cigarettes when he wrote those lines about the cake being left out in the rain, and the "sweet green icing flowing down."
This evening I went for a run in a local park. It was a beautiful day, after it had rained cats and dogs all day Friday. That's when I experienced a "MacArthur Park" moment.
Hasn't anyone noticed how it looks in spring when all the green petals and seed pods drop off the trees? Most people don't think of those as flowers, since they're green, but all deciduous trees are flowering plants, and that green stuff that falls off is the petals.
When it rains, mass quantities of those petals come flowing down and cover the ground, and you can see where the image of the "sweet green frosting flowing down" came from.
Very pretty to look at, but of course the stuff gets stuck in the treads of your sneakers when you run over it.
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on 5/11/2008
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