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Lily Mae Jan 2011
The smell of your cigarette still lingers;
Note to self: Open the window...

The things you wrote to me;
Note to self: Delete...

The blame you cast upon me;
Note to self: ******* let it go...

I don't care anymore... this heart is closed.
Note to self: No Vacancy...

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"Closed for the winter season.

Will re-open in Spring."
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"Hello, hello...is this Hotel Heart?
Could I talk to the proprietress,
Lily Mae?

I'd like to make a reservation for 2 weeks in April;
a double room with hot shower, double bed,
and personal room service.

Any vacancies for that time?"

"Hello...you've reached Hotel Heart.
We're currently closed,
but will be re-opened in the early Spring;

please leave me your contact information,
and I'll get back with you
as soon as the reconstruction is finished.

Thank you for calling
and have a great day."
Isabella Bachman May 2011
Morphing Memory

I sit, and watch, and wait
For the time, the place, the date
In a tree by the whitewashed gate
The moment more than a minute late
Stuck in a horrific scatterbrained state
As if insisting an ingress interest rate
Risking return to a tabula rasa slate
No longer the proprietress of prized real estate
Solely searching for the squandered second to relocate
Eternal anticipation for a sudden soothing spate
Fluctuating failure that hopefully time can eliminate
Desire to keep things straight and communicate, lifting this worn weight
Babatunde Raimi Feb 2020
He grabbed his mother
From behind, by her waistline
She turned and looked at him
Lustfully he said, "You look beautiful Mum"
She huged him, planted a forehead kiss

He grabbed his sister
Exactly the way he did his Mum
She turned, spanked him
Their mother rebuked her
Heavens fell on her that day

He grabbed his teacher
You've got nice curves "He said"
Bewildered, confused, she slapped him
She was laid off, "He is just a kid"
The exact words of the Proprietress

Now, he grabbed a stranger
She didn't look at his age
She grabbed him back
Deposited him at the station
He will be sent to the Juvenile
He did the crime, he'll do the time
Tell me, who is to blame?

— The End —