The grinning pachyderm in the foyer
Wants to fall in love
The real kind with a reciprocal
Sinking cliché wrinkled and obtuse
So homogenous like chlorine in
Burmese tap water
Name tags, for sale signs, and
fishing tackle
Corks bobbing in store fronts
Last season’s fashion on clearance
Predictable Irish whiskey pubs
sloshing
For darts and pull tabs rollicking
with the tender
Bathroom graffiti with proper
grammar and spelling
To impress
Uncut front lawn and herb garden in
the rear courtyard
Shadowed pergola with the vines on
creep
Sentiments of fire and the
schoolyard children over the fence
Gazing out an upstairs window,
glancing at my wrist
Grumbling stomach, got to go clean
the kitchen
Counters sauced, oven’s caked
Roaches scrambling with the light
Feeling like I bought a house three
times too damn big!
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