Evening July 2003

Posted on July 17, 2003 in Book of Days Poems

Note: This is part of a series based on exercises from A Writer’s Book of Days. It’s something of a rebellion against the Friday Five and similar tupperware content memes.

Today’s topic: In a state of disarray.

Home.

Away for the afternoon because of the heat

I return to the condominium to find it

holding all that I missed in my absence:

The gutted air conditioner

The cat food baking on to the bowl

The cats flopped on the floor

The desk covered with half poems,

  quarter stories,

    whole books,

      empty cups

        and post-it pads.
I have discovered my “true, honest, untheoretical self”

and it’s giving me chlorine pains just below the hairline.

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