>>> Snap: Her Old Room
>>>
>>> At her parents’ pale yellow brick house,
>>> she said:
>>> ‘Come upstairs, you’ll like
>>> the room I spent my childhood in.
>>> See:
>>> nothing’s changed (except the wallpaper) -
>>>
>>> I looked out over these trees (smaller),
>>> pouring my young soul into poems and essays.
>>>
>>> Here’s the sofa bed, designed for this room,
>>> the whole late art deco symphony,
>>>
>>> the diamond mirror, the oak veneer panels
>>> still glowing, the curved window glass.’
>>>
>>> ‘No wonder’, I said, ‘your parents heard
>>> their house would suit that fight-game movie:
>>>
>>> the 30s, hard men in fedoras,
>>> the good time girl whose heart is broken.
>>>
>>> I read about it ... wish they’d said Yes.
>>> However bad, I’d have enjoyed the movie.’
>>>
>>> ‘Hearts are broken in every decade’,
>>> she said, ‘this is where one grew.’
>>>
>>>
There's something *very* Mark Kozelek about this one (compare
"Moorestown", by Sun Kil Moon...)
Dominic
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