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Weekly Poem: "Time for Treats"
Time
for Treats
"Treat,
treat, treat?"
Scattered
on the floor,
little
tuna and chicken goodies.
Treat,
treat, treat.
He
hovers over the meat cooler,
looking
for the biggest packages
of
the leanest hamburger.
Treat,
treat, treat!
We
pick up two buck chuck,
chocolate,
Irish Breakfast tea
and
German herring at Trader Joe's.
Treat,
treat, treat?
At
this rate, his Lotto winnings
will
not last long.
Licking
icing off my fingers
from
the cinnamon rolls
good
luck brings.
(It
brings treats.)
February
28, 2015
prompt: treat poem
Weekly Poem: "Careless"
Careless
We
were so careful with each other,
not
willing to risk heart, home,
flesh,
bone.
We
touched briefly between the aisles
of
the public library. Book end to book
end,
what
stories we could tell?
I
only sketched the barest outline.
You
kept well within the lines,
characters
not fleshed out, plots threadbare.
Today,
I carelessly call off our meeting.
Tired
with a headache, excuses made
for
five years into a marriage, not five years
into
this, whatever this is.
Every
polite, we arrange to meet on Tuesday,
when
our schedules will allow.
Allow
me.
No,
you go first.
Don't
let the door hit you on the way out.
February
28, 2015
prompt: careless poem
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