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greatpoetryA girl on the stairs listens to her father
Beat up her mother.
Doors bang.
She comes down in her nightgown.
The piano stands there in the dark
Like a boy with an orchid.
She plays what she can
Then turns the lamp on.
Her mother's music is spread out
On the floor like brochures.
She hears her father
Running through the leaves.
The last black key
She presses stays down, makes no sound,
Someone putting their tongue where their tooth had been.
C.D. Wright
Beat up her mother.
Doors bang.
She comes down in her nightgown.
The piano stands there in the dark
Like a boy with an orchid.
She plays what she can
Then turns the lamp on.
Her mother's music is spread out
On the floor like brochures.
She hears her father
Running through the leaves.
The last black key
She presses stays down, makes no sound,
Someone putting their tongue where their tooth had been.
C.D. Wright
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Date: 2004-03-06 03:10 pm (UTC)THANK YOU for posting it.
powerful
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Date: 2004-03-06 03:15 pm (UTC)i can feel the end image in my mouth, you know? amazing.
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Date: 2004-03-06 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-06 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-06 05:49 pm (UTC)Thanks
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Date: 2004-03-07 12:41 am (UTC)thank you for posting it.