January 20

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Looking for
something else

I found an old photo—
What a trick

it would be to slip
back into life,

especially
my own.

.

Oh that a want
would just come

when called,
like an obedient dog,

not some
senile, pissy cat.

.

Or was it I
was meant to sit

and stay?
The whole time

I thought I was
out there taming things.

.

This air is just too stale
for remembering—

the sky loosing
its gloss to dusk,

the streetlamps
illumining,

another day
closing like a door.

9 Comments

  1. Jeff Schwaner's avatar

    Er, I know that wasn’t very deep. Just an honest reaction. Damn good! Go a couple days without reading one of your poems, it’s always good to get back here and find one.

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  2. robert okaji's avatar

    “Oh that a want / would just come / when called…” I, too, wish it were so, but lately it seems that even my dogs ignore my pleas. 🙂

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