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From Poems Around the Home
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150 FROM poems around the home What tiny things enormous emotions cling to. Amorphous Thoughts, how you clasp on and fasten to the most modest Items around the home, around the world. Like a rock Hostessing a hundred thousand barnacles What unwanted weight visits upon you. Innocent, patient Toaster, afflicted medicine-cabinet, poor, put-upon napkinholder, Telephone and toothbrush (sad victims of human demand: “Love me more! Love me more! Love me more!”). I understand why you must escape. [...] ...