8.22.2012

POEM: Debt

opinions are desires and she bestrides her cart like she's hard.
makes the others sabine colossi
lumbering under the final night as birds fall from the sky.
the case is pocked from stairway climbs.
a heart can ossify 
from disambiguated word counts, placard phrases, 
and a pyramid scheme of passcodes: 
her first pet, her first love, the guise of a marriage she took part in once
years of a man who's initials combined with her birthday unlock the debt on her visa card.
opinions are desires and she unlocks her case.
and wonders what happened to elliptical lives, to not knowing things, and dollar bills for the maids.
now every ordinary day polished and every dullard serialized.  And no one stays.
What happened to boredom? she thinks.  
What happened to a man who looked for you in the same old place.

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