Transparent Words - Poetry

 
 
Still Paying
 
By Rich Furman
 
 
Those miserable days
when misplacing your keys
becomes a metaphor
for loosing your mind.
 
The milk carton lies dead
your brain plowed over
with yesterday's nonsense
a thousand ruined armies.
 
One greening end of hardened bread
the bottom scum of the jelly jar
the walls dance
on the flat part of your skull.
 
The covers rise up
possessed by piles of underwear
the stacks of dishes
flying as guillotines.
 
Somewhere keys
whispering to your lost wallet
about the jacket you misplaced
in the forth grade
having to save your lunch money
for a whole year to pay for it.
 

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