Victoria Hunter Poet Free verse

The Gift

Candy-stripe wallpaper
bloody red carpet
My cat put one paw in
and backed out

Never try to settle a fight  in there

Honey  I think the room was made
after someone worked too hard
to get the kink  out of their hair
without pulling  some of it out

Of course  it has a mirror
but little enough to belong
to a child's play vanity

But honey  there is no damn handle
to hold the unused toilet paper

Were they too poor  to not have that either?

Sorry honey  I can't say anything
really nice about it
twice again today  I reached for its handle
and it wasn't there

Just before I called you  I thought
I could make one  with a co-hanger
I promised to keep the instructions  to myself
and to try  not to think it  loudly
just in case the Illuminati  really exist

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