Baseboards Poems - Poems about Baseboards

...Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree, things aren't the same as they used to be. When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail, I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale. Such an inj......

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...My father's heart beats beneath the baseboards of my chest What scares me isn't the furnace inside it It isn't all the hate and ignorance It shuffles on its cane Buh bump Buuuuuuh bump Buhbu......

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...Civilization They take root and sprout up like the corn that used to fill these fields. Acres of grassland, fertile farmland, and the houses grow day by day. Trucks filled with house......

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...Harmless guest Underneath Zoom chair Some small creature fleeing in confusion Ah ha, a brown lizard, harmless four-legged guest Hiding and scared, aren’t you? So am I Please do not visi......

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...Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O'Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the homes of both men ......

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...At the final stroking of saint Halloween eve, it seems not so long ago, That my trusty SUV, transport vehicle unceremoniously broke down, Right outside the local pet cemetery, what a marvelous plac......

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...It isn’t the incandescence that bothers me It’s that anyway you spin the arrow, Whatever goal or mission or path you undertake, They’re all correct. The full force of your efforts is all that mat......

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...I want one. How many times have I said this? That damned cat is killing the good rug. Like death, the cold bathroom waits. I fear what's ahead, but what do they care? From everywhere they appear......

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...Winter is approaching. I feel it in my floorboards; in my baseboards; in every nook and cranny. I wait to be filled again at this time of Thanksgiving, and As I wait, sounds of the past linger i......

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...She bought a computer Hooked it up by herself Thought that she'd find a suitor Fit for a tudor She'd heard friends talking How they entered the game She felt she knew now She could do the ......

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