January 17, 2006

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  The Fitting Room   mp3 here.

  "This woman who enamours me," he said,
  "She's not a poet, she lives an ordinary life"
  (poets live large lives.....)

   

  So, to find a lover

  I must give up poetry

  And live smaller

  Than usual.

   

  But I'm a big girl

  In a big city,
  In a big country, 

  With a big heart,

  And the biggest

  Head measurement

  In my graduating class,

  And I had big dreams.

  
  Round pegs
  In square holes,
  Twisted little boxes,
  Square pegs
  In round holes,
  Cinderella's shoe.
  Pound me in. 

  I'll fit

  If you burn me
  And use my ashes.

   

  Oh. 
  Wait. 
  What if I give you
  My last
  Alice in Wonderland
  growing cookie....
  

   

   

   

  pearlbamboo

   

   

  copyright.  e.p. hodges

   

   

  and a nod of my head towards ifti, jerjoni and bird, muses 

   

   

   

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