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Tue Feb-03-09 07:36 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 2/3/2009) |
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Shelter
To fit a house into a car, live lightly. How many pairs of jeans are needed? The mole people build homes from garbage. Trash houses rats. The backs of rats harbor lice. We anchor where situation drops us and sleep can be its own room to settle in trusting the door's latch will hold. In Cannes, I crash on the grass in a park, wake to rankness as a bum spoons me, his hand between my legs poking, trying to burrow. Such an intimate violation. The sour wine of his breath washes my cheek. His knees shelter behind mine, startle when I kick away. We all seek our own protection, huddling against the back of the cave when the flame flickers out. I sleep with my city windows open, a knife beneath the pillow. Every now and then, morning shows scratches on my arm, the thinnest traces of red and I feel safe.
Suzanne Parker
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:hi:
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Tue Feb-03-09 07:54 AM
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Tue Feb-03-09 06:14 PM
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Tue Feb-03-09 08:35 AM
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2. Excellent. Carry on. nt |
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Tue Feb-03-09 06:14 PM
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Tue Feb-03-09 08:53 AM
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Tue Feb-03-09 06:15 PM
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And she really nice too.
She was in my workshop at Sarah Lawrence.
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Tue Feb-03-09 07:09 PM
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Stop me if I asked you this before, but during your SL stay did you meet a guy named Kevin Pilkington? He teaches there. He's super-nice, totally unpretentious, and a great poet. :)
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Tue Feb-03-09 10:02 PM
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12. I did not get a chance to meet him |
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Maybe I will in June when I come back to SLC.
Wanna pick me up at White Plains Airport and drop me at SLC? :D
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Wed Feb-04-09 12:06 PM
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Don't rule it out, anyway. :D
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Tue Feb-03-09 09:25 AM
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Wow, a tough one...
Great imagery!
Thank you...
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