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Open Poetry #37

Look Ma, No Mind

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2006-02-07 02:37 PM

LOOK MA, NO MIND
18 August 2001

There's a red stringy thing
hanging from the top shelf
of the bookcase behind me.

Confidentially,
I think it's my mind.
You, of course, may call it
a bookmark ...
but I know it's my mind.
It must be.
I lost it in this very room
...and it isn't anywhere else ...
Can you see it anywhere?

I don't know how to insert it again
but perhaps it doesn't matter.
Who would know?
There's a kinda numbness
where it was
that is better than the consuming pain.

I sorta prefer not having it.
I think I'll leave it
where it is ...
hanging like a shrivelled string
from the topmost bookshelf...

- Owl

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

1 posted 2006-02-07 02:51 PM

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2006-02-07 03:16 PM

Oops! I see I posted this in Open Poetry #36. Sorry!

Thanks LeeJ for the hug. It sounds as though, I need it, doesn't it? Hee hee.

- Owl

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

3 posted 2006-02-07 04:39 PM

Outstanding!

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

4 posted 2006-02-12 02:34 PM

Thanks, Kate.

- Owl

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2006-02-14 12:33 PM

Thanks, Kate.

- Owl

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