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The Old Brown Desk |
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Martie
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The Old Brown Desk She was twenty-five, a college drop out, each day the same. A cramped office that smelled like disinfectant. Dull everything except her old brown desk with the brown desk blotter. Carved names, etched hearts and a peace sign hidden there. Sad to think the lives that desk had known. How they looked, what circumstances brought them to tell their heart’s desire to the desk top were her imagination’s treasure. She knew that Mark loved Julie. "Love is timeless happenstance", was carved so deep pieces of eraser were trapped in the inscription. Sometimes she would amuse herself adding more, she wrote "Life’s a bitch", and "What’s it all about". A receptionist in the personnel office of J&B’s Janitorial Services was not always busy. |
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Jewl_24_1999 Member
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Good poem Martie! |
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