Scratched
...There are gaps in the particleboard;
quince wads fill the breaches.
Nicotine newspapers underlay the linoleum.
It's a rented place, he tiptoes
around its yellow layers.
He has a friend he visits...
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Categories:
particleboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rooms
...Ocher and quince wads
pack gaps in particleboard walls.
Yellow newspapers underlay linoleum.
The apartment is smeared by nicotine
When it rains, a paper-Mache atlas of a blotched sky
can be read...
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Categories:
particleboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Day They Destroyed a Carboard Family
...(Nevada Test Site 1951)
The house is ply-struts
not even particleboard.
Mom is cardboard,
dad and my little sister are manikins,
Older brother is a painted figure
of a younger brother’s ima...
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Categories:
particleboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Scratched
...There are gaps in the particleboard;
quince wads fill the breaches.
Nicotine newspapers underlay the linoleum.
It's a rented place, he tiptoes
around its yellow layers.
He has a friend he visi...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
particleboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Rooms
...Quince wads pack gaps in particleboard.
Yellow newspapers underlay linoleum.
The apartment is a nicotine
an atlas of a blotched sky
can be read on the ceiling.
He has a friend that he visits o...
...
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Categories:
particleboard, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Somewhere On the Other Side of Reality
...I had moved out of my old family home,
several years before,
That home of happy memories,
Existed on this earth no more,
Torn down for cheaply made condos,
The particleboard type of crap,
I'd m...
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Categories:
particleboard, adventure, allegory, angst, life,
Form: Free verse