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Open Poetry #40

Never Buy Used Furniture

dingusjr
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since 2003-09-24

Posts 415
Missouri

0 posted 2007-02-25 09:21 PM

I'll never buy another
used piece of furniture
for fear someone's dead grandmother
will sit, unseen, in my living room.

It seems the dead get attached
to the things they used in life,
and just keep on using them.

Dogs and children can see them,
gossiping and crocheting on the couch,
or sitting down to turkey diner
in the dining room.

If I reach for the salt
will I feel an unseen hand
pulling in the opposite direction?

Or, heaven forbid,
sit in the same seat
with someone's maiden aunt?

Better to just buy new furniture next time.

steavenr
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since 2003-11-17

Posts 4058

1 posted 2007-02-25 09:37 PM

great write...found myself chuckling at your unearthly observations...very well done...

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2007-02-25 11:32 PM

LOL

that's a good one! Loved it!

Janette

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since 2001-07-20

Posts 2843
Chicagoland for now

3 posted 2007-02-26 09:51 AM

Hahahahaha!
Good one, it captured my imagination.

always seeking joy, adventure and romance and wishing you find the same

Ratleader

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since 2003-01-23

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4 posted 2007-03-05 11:06 PM

Ya gave me grins and little shivers, simultaneously -- I wanna hear the story BEHIND this poem!

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unholyjudgement
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since 2007-02-27

Posts 116
Wherever my soul takes me next

5 posted 2007-03-07 10:09 AM

LoL
great snd humerous read

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