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Master
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since 1999-08-18
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Boston, MA

0 posted 2007-08-31 12:01 PM



Nights here are quiet, if you can ignore the crickets.
If you can’t, Natick should not be your town of choice.
Unable to sleep, you’ll chain-smoke, thinking
about money or schoolwork, her scent or her voice.
You’ll get to know insomnia on a first-name basis.
The electric bill will double before you can strike a match
to light a candle. In twilight, you’ll greet strange faces,
resembling yours in some way. You’ll feel detached
from any sense of reality. You’ll have to stop and retrain
your body to walk in the dark, aware of the landscape.
Your ears will catch everything from the horn of a train,
to someone’s soft breathing, to a far-away handshake.
You’ll get a job at store twenty-four, across the station,
drown boredom in tabloids, steal snacks from the shelf.
At dawn, the analog clock will start testing your patience
Sometime around noon, you’ll learn to talk to yourself.
You’ll scribble poetry on the margin of some magazine,
With a headline about Brittney gaining twenty pounds
And it won’t take you long to see that the grass is green,
And Chardonnay tastes better with no one around.

Check out my poetry here:

http://home.comcast.net/~kneller/aboutme.html

© Copyright 2007 Andrey Kneller - All Rights Reserved
Kit McCallum
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since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774
Ontario, Canada
1 posted 2007-08-31 08:16 AM


Hello there Master!  It's good to read you again! I loved the way you meandered through this piece. I think my last 24 hours has just been summed up in your poem!

Much enjoyed this.

Best wishes,
/Kit

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