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Purgatory and Other Conversations - 1. Poem One: Purgatory

Purgatory and Other Conversations
 
bye Bugeye
 
 
I want to rent your room.
 
Why ? Why would you want to do that.
 
To spend the day with you.
 
How much rent are going to pay me ?
 
I got to pay rent ?
 
Of course, you have to pay rent.
 
Isn’t my presence enough, my body ?
 
No.
 
Why are you dressed in a dress today ?
 
Don’t you like it ?
 
It is so black and you are so pale and the light of day is all about you.
 
Why do you turn your glaze from me always ?
 
Why do you turn and look away ?
 
At the miles and miles and miles of nothing out there.
 
Because it is there.
 
And here in our ghost town.
 
Full of nothing real but those two wolves.
 
Who only stare. Who only glare. Who only dare.
 
I want to be.
 
I like your painting on the wall, the landscape.
 
My detail of a landscape, the one part I remember.
 
How long do you want to rent my room.
 
For the day.
 
But the day last forever here.
 
 
 
June 12, 2012
 
Copyright © 2012 Foster; All Rights Reserved.
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On 06/22/2012 11:23 PM, Carl DaVinci said:
An incredibly well written poem. I enjoyed it completely.
Thanks Carl for reading. What is a poem, expression or communication... words used like scent to lure or like camouflage to deceive.
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...my head is still reeling a bit. it was so engrossing; by 'i got to rent it?' i was laughing out loud; boom - it's hit me with the force force of longing and despair.

 

The best blows - the ones we remember - are the unexpected ones.

 

Bravo

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On 10/13/2013 02:43 PM, AC Benus said:
...my head is still reeling a bit. it was so engrossing; by 'i got to rent it?' i was laughing out loud; boom - it's hit me with the force force of longing and despair.

 

The best blows - the ones we remember - are the unexpected ones.

 

Bravo

Thank you AC Benus. I never get many reads or reviews, especially for the poetry. I blocked most of my poems and stuff some time ago. So thank you for four reviews and four likes and your very kind words.
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