Short Doormats Poems

The cats
were so used to
looking up. They
hunched on their bellies
.
like hairy doormats 
and their eyes turned
like those of animated
bedrom slippers.
.
So high I stood,
all of my 5 foot 3.
Feeling the pain
of back cramps, I
.
bend to feed them,
wild animals
somehow brought servile
into my tenderness....

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Welcome to the Marvelous Store
There are many things for you to explore

Soft and hard doormats
Fierce dogs and shy cats
Bright lights
Flying kites
Country Flags
Big Bags
Ticking clocks
Secure locks
old and young toys
clothes for girls and boys
orange carrot
loud parrot
technology galore
you will want even more

Welcome to the Marvelous Store
Now what exactly did you come for?...

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We got confused
They could hurt our feelings
But we were not supposed to hurt theirs

They could do evil things to us
And we were supposed to turn our cheek
Allow them to increase their target

We were supposed to be doormats
And allow them to wipe their steel toed boots on us
We did not question it; socialized the way we were

By a woman
Who would not have tolerated
Any misbehaviors from others....

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Here at the back-end of March
here at the epi-center of normal
daffodils death-dance in the snow and sleet,
squirrels return to dray's
seeking shelter from the unpredictable,
this helter-skelter weather.
Tomorrow we may simmer
in winter warmers
the sun flirt with rays of Spring fire,
but not until sheep and lions
give birth to roaring lambs,
will our doormats transition
to round-the-clock muddy welcomes....

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