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A Perfectly Reasonable Question (Free verse) by baughworm "There is really nothing more to say-- except for why. But since why is
difficult to handle, must take refuge in how."
--Toni Morrison
Through the keyhole
I saw your bare back
Arching, Writhing, Glistening
His knobby hands
Riding your hips
Like a coin operated
Horse at the supermarket.
I wait
At our kitchen table,
With a one word question
That you will dance around
And ultimately fail to
Answer.
Up the ladder:
The Dreamer
Down the ladder:
The End OF Me
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Posted: June 6, 2003 1:19 PM PDT; Last modified: June 6, 2003 1:19 PM PDTWeighted score: 6.151129 Overall Rank: 1061 Comments:
GQT award. Fucking awesome poem, hands down.
Col. Mustard in the Bedroom with the Wank Harness.
(click) goes the numerator.
snowflakes falling into a dead squirrels mouth
like paratroopers on d - day great poem baughworm we should write another poem 2gether some day
usually, one glimpses into a room through a not-quite-closed door. could it be that in her haste, she thought she had shut it? and it creaked open, but she failed to notice it since her focus was elsewhere?
otherwise, quite strong.
Thank you
She had a good suggestion. Another way you could go with it is that he sees some evidence of what's going on, clothing in the hall or something like that, and he simply sees the images in his mind instead of actually seeing it.
clothing in the hall is good. keys on the counter.
a pack of cigarettes--not her brand.
I like the cigarettes. Maybe she could actually make it to the table and be smoking one too....
Sorry we're slowly rewriting your poem.
his knobby hands riding your hips?
I'm confused by this image, like a coin operated horse at the supermarket? that implies a climbing on, straddling motion, which confuses me, wouldn't the woman be straddling? Not the man's hands... I'm confused. I like the poem, but I am confused.
I didn't mean straddling, but simply the mechanical rocking motion of the horse. I used the horse because it has that straddling associated with it, but more directly I was only going for the actual rocking motion.
Thanks
This is average thats all how it got top fuck knows. 5
Pretty damn fine pie mam. 7
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Waiting at the kitchen table to tell someone off is one of the worst things in the world.
b) not if your a refined scholar as the likes of da, or christof, or p&k the'd be civil and finish their toast before calling their accountant then lawyer. Because they are learnded men of the clothe.