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have sieved the ruins of discarded things, sometimes finding in an old magazine, women looking through you with ageless eyes block square keys of a typewriter, cardboard covers of fragile messages, images of shattering glass, empty bottles of RAT POISON, ‘Kamasutra for beginners' ‘The lonely wife’ other clandestine books, sometimes, extracted from some secret wardrobe chamber, wrapped in brown paper school notebooks with red tick-marks, blots, rights, wrongs, devastating stories of marks, homework, a light bulb that still works, the legs of a chair, toy horses, toy cars, scratched plastic gaping holes in mugs, buckets, fake notes from a crumpled game of monopoly, a chewed dog's collar, a heavy rusted ***** every night in my dreams, they come hopping over a barn, now you know, that I do not count sheep
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May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 at 5:47 AM UTC
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have sieved the ruins of discarded things, sometimes finding in an old magazine, women looking through you with ageless eyes block square keys of a typewriter, cardboard covers of fragile messages, images of shattering glass, empty bottles of RAT POISON, ‘Kamasutra for beginners' ‘The lonely wife’ other clandestine books, sometimes, extracted from some secret wardrobe chamber, wrapped in brown paper school notebooks with red tick-marks, blots, rights, wrongs, devastating stories of marks, homework, a light bulb that still works, the legs of a chair, toy horses, toy cars, scratched plastic gaping holes in mugs, buckets, fake notes from a crumpled game of monopoly, a chewed dog's collar, a heavy rusted ***** every night in my dreams, they come hopping over a barn, now you know, that I do not count sheep
This poem was first published in the Jan-Feb 2012 issue of Reading Hour Magazine
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May 12, 2016
May 12, 2016 at 5:47 AM UTC
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