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This week's words:
Defensive; Fertile; Needy.
The Request
Seems like years have passed
since you started your pleading
with me:
Stop all this
defensive blather
you lay down like fertilized
eggs in fertile rows,
expecting full bloom
ripe fungus among needy
matters of habit
strewn backstreet gardens.
I want peace between my teeth.
Would you just shut up?
October 22, 2014 2:13 PM
So okay. I have looked at this poem several times. Yes. I wrote it too. I still can't decide if that middle verse is "you" talking to me or me talking to "you". Sigh.
ReplyDeleteit sounds angry
ReplyDeleteYes it does, either way you read it.
Delete'Peace between my teeth,' oh yes, amen, Brother!
ReplyDelete(About the you and me biz, on the first go I thought it was all me. But now I think it’s me, you, me, and I like it best that way.)
:D Me too.
DeleteI rarely know the difference between me and so constantly tell myself to shut up? Could it be that!
ReplyDeleteSo I said to myself, "Self, pull yourself together!"
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