Tuesday, January 21, 2014

EAST UNIT


the chart says he keeps yelling
for Mama & Ray
only it sounds more like Roy when I hear it,
as in “Roooooy! bring me a knife!”
his goal is to buy some tools
and wood for the winter
and I can’t blame him,
it’s freezing in here.
I can’t stop shivering
and tugging on my sleeves.
when we arrived everyone was barefoot
so we spent the first hour finding
non-skid socks and pulling them over
handfuls of yellow cross-eyed toes
while they did or didn’t eat breakfast.
someone else wanted to see
a seabird so I took her to the window
but it was too foggy to see
past the parking lot.

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