Hi - I have been prowling around an old computer and came upon a poem I
never got published and in fact I had forgotten I had ever written it.
If anybody is feeling critical - please be critical about it.
As I say - although I found it on my computer I think somebody else wrote
it.
cheers - jennifer compton
Useful Cupboards
The men are gassing our white ants. I camp with the kids at a friend’s.
The statement a mother makes when she spreads winter rose Berber
under her family’s feet! Luxurious.
"Love your pink carpet!"
She looks sideways – she knows me – she takes me back into her lounge room,
points at the same hard wearing beige mottle we all lay under our families
feet.
"I wanted the rose but I laid yesterday’s porridge ‘til the kids have left
home.
What’s wrong with your eyes? Sometimes I wonder. I don’t know about you."
Oh!
It’s the useful cupboards, at the planning stage, that they never built
(because the house burnt down) that I saw that time until they led me
right through where they would be (but weren’t) and proved me wrong.
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