Pieces of Women

grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
edited August 2006 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
There is a small locked box under my bed
Where I keep pieces of women:
Strands of light thin hair found on my
black sweater's shoulders,
fingernail clippings given me in Spanish class,
jewelry left on bedside tables,
garments given me to wash,
scribbled, halfthought notes,
dropped, crevice-forgotten lipgloss
or eyeliner pencils,
things kept carefully pristine.

These things are all kept safely guarded
in a small locked box under my bed
visited occasionally in moments when I'm especially lonely
or times when I feel as though
the things that go unfulfilled in life
are the most true.

Lying on my bed
(with the light doing so-and-so)
I may occasionally rise,
hunker down on my knees,
and there
nestled among other private old things,
they rest,
waiting for my wild
hungry eyes.
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    "waiting for my wild
    hungry eyes"

    I love this ending. :)
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  • So men can be sentimental too! I always knew it.

    Nice poem!
    "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to eachother." Mother Theresa
  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    not sure if it's sentimental or just a little creepy. :)
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • DopeBeastieDopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    that lip gloss cost me twenty-two bucks, you son-n-so... give it back!









    :D
  • PastaNazi wrote:
    that lip gloss cost me twenty-two bucks, you son-n-so... give it back!









    :D

    :p And I want my fingernail clippings back, man! :D

    Nice to see ya around, groovy! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    not sure if it's sentimental or just a little creepy. :)


    It is quite definately both. ;)
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  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    :p And I want my fingernail clippings back, man! :D

    Nice to see ya around, groovy! :)


    Nice to see some familiar faces still here. I miss you guys!
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  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    So men can be sentimental too! I always knew it.

    Nice poem!


    I am crazy sentimental. I keep almost everything. I keep mini-golf score cards! It's kinda a problem, really. You know what they say...you can't take it with you...
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  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    PastaNazi wrote:
    that lip gloss cost me twenty-two bucks, you son-n-so... give it back!









    :D

    Nice to see ya, PN. Gawd I still have a huge crush on you. ;)









    really.
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  • DopeBeastieDopeBeastie Posts: 2,513
    Nice to see ya, PN. Gawd I still have a huge crush on you. ;)









    really.



    :D oh, we'd so holla if I went to Pennsy :D it'd be fun
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