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Open Poetry #47

toothpick people

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

0 posted 2011-02-17 11:57 PM

i don't understand how
you could sit across from me
making people out of toothpicks
on the table top
as though we weren't
in this restaurant
where you just picked a fight
with me and made me cry
no, i will never understand why

your face devoid of all emotion
your eyes a stony cold
you rearrange your little toothpick people
to suit your liking
as you once manipulated me
before the days you had
to resort to making scenes
in restaurants just to set me off

i can't help thinking
you see me as
one of these little people
lifeless and without feelings
as though i had a wooden heart
as though you were
master of the universe
having, wanting, needing
total control of me

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

katahdin
Senior Member

since 2010-07-01

Posts 1196
ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.

1 posted 2011-02-18 02:32 AM

This is heavy stuff!! Very thought provoking, enjoyed.
Kat >^..^<

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2011-02-18 08:22 AM

So much truth here on manipulation, great expose! Love it.
Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2011-02-18 09:09 AM

Stand up straight,
Smile and walk away.
Leave him with his toothpicks,
Good riddance, damn quick.

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

4 posted 2011-02-18 10:56 AM

Thank you all for your comments. I appreciate them.

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

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