tough, tough, Caleb
& I really liked the 'of' phrases piling up there (like the
furniture)...
Doug
On 28-Aug-07, at 6:50 PM, Caleb Cluff wrote:
> (for Dave Graney)
>
> Alcohol is so twentieth century.
> Marihuana is the new drug. It helps you
> reorganise the furniture in your mind.
>
> Problem is
> I find myself kneeling
> in front of the sideboard of regret,
>
> the dresser of misery, the wardrobe
> of youth. Rummaging through a drawer,
> fondling a camisole of someone more imagined -
>
> ah! Here's that letter, photo, cloud of smoke,
> that memory of white flesh revealed, smooth
> and new, so new, the scale of ribs to play.
>
> Nah. Better the booze.
> Leave the furniture where it is,
> get in the moving van.
>
>
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