Best Apartment House Poems

Her apartment house was shaped like a tall woman’s boot.
I could see why she chose to live there, it did in fact suit.
Her disposition, her...

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Love In The Library

     by Edmund Siejka

( East Of Seventh, poems by Edmund Siejka available on Amazon) 


He was a scrawny...

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"THE BUTTERFLY CATCHER."


Chicano face.
California.
closer to death.
he just pulled up to a house where the car he's about to tow sits.
he tows a lot of cars,...

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The poetry I write seems harsh
it seems sad and powerful,
sings songs and pslams to the sorrowful soul,
sung its song in the past of sorrow in...

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MR. SIBARBARA

Mr. Sibarbara was 30s fat    really fat!    A big, fat, 
     good natured Italian...

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OLD TIME NEIGHBORHOOD  (1934)

Reborn a wrinkled old child
Inhaling the smell of budget
Walking those cracked    skated-on sidewalks
Old trees    with...

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My house (it's a really two-bedroom apartment
On the corner of Moorpark, lineup as if it
Was a firecracker or criminal lot, unshaven, old; 
Overcrowding and unquiet...

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"THE SHOPPING CART PEOPLE"



I've been in and out of this 
apartment house for months. 
I've met interesting people,
some married, some single,
some with fits of violence....

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Way down low under the roots of the wild fern bush trees
There is an elfin village name of O’Brien Cee Threes.
Human giants do not know...

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Looking Out My Window

I look out my window
On the parking lot 

And see the mad cat
That lives underneath the apartment house

And look out at the...

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I look out my window
On the parking lot 

And see the mad cat
That lives underneath the apartment house

And look out at the park
Thinking of taking...

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Gnarly exposed tree roots 
Sheltering the fey
Pops of purple violets
With dash of yellow
Adorning in quiet ways

Mischievous forest pixies
Prancing in silence
Discover this oak is hollow
Build an...

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As the local transit bus stopped and unloaded
Seconds after, a powerful bomb exploded.
We knew that terrorists had struck again, 
Causing mistrust and fear, to everyone’s...

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Watching three cats 

Watching three cats 
gamboling along 
Looking at me 

While I look at them 
Each wondering what sort of weird creatures 
The other...

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Over one hundred foot tall? Of course I could.
Many people pine for my smooth reddish wood.
An apartment house? Not quite my friend.
When used in construction...

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