Short Chest Of Drawers Poems

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letters lie crumpled
when will you read them again?
open tiny tin locket

memories hidden
way back in chest of drawers
warm? among the socks and scarves...

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My hair is frizzy and very black.
I found it in my chest of drawers.
Also a bunch grows in my crack.
And if you like it, it's all yours.


For Rick Parise's "A Bad Hair Day" contest...

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Households unhitch so readily.
We watch incredulous as they float off,
hulls creaking, 
rafters cracking like wind-lashed rigging.

Where we once believed roots gripped bedrock
now shiftless boards bob in the swell. 
Domesticity tumbles out.
Bed springs gape, 
a chest-of-drawers turns, inside out.

The everyday innards of a dwelling, face up,
barely floating:
a sure sign of those about to drown....

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Beauty's Beast.

Well I'm looking but I don't see.
A little here a little there
I even looked under the stair.
In the wardrobes and chest of drawers.
I even scrutinised the floors
but look I did and could not find
am I stupid, am I blind.
You say you left it by my chair.
Well I'm sorry  to say it's just not there.
I'm flabbergasted to say the least
but I think your wrong Beauty,
there is no Beast....

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Premiered at Midland Motor Speedway, Odessa, TX – 6/26/1998
	               
ACT 1

Das Lied für Alma
Still Life Instrumental
First Nights
Pain Hurts
Violet
Dancing with the Blues
The Reckoning
No One’s Going Home 

ACT 2

Brickyard Informal
Beneath the Wheel
Eyes of a Miner
Here She Was
Halfway to My Knees
The Last Time We Made Love

ACT 3

I Quit
Never Be Too Far Away 
Yesterday’s Coffee
Stale Green Light...

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