There's No Place
there’s no place like home;
really, I mean it: there’s no place,
face, or orbit the earth space…
like home;
and there’s no place like your couch,
and your widescreen TV; with it’s
clouded, cultured dreams and
potted dramas without an end;
there’s no place like home;
when your away in the soft white sand;
swimming with guides and friendship
(for hire)
And a man comes in;
It’s OK… he’s delivering the mail¸ and
his wry Baptist smile says,
“cool, your home, you work from
here?”
he means your couch, “yes I do”, I say,
and with a face like a cooked fish,he
leaves hurt and seething, with a gladiator’s,
gnashing, grinding, worn out teeth;
and there’s no place like home;
your fridge and flies and dripping
rafter-roof; and it’s fine;
it’s just fine.
Copyright © Peter Lewis Holmes | Year Posted 2015
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