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Cleaning House... a poem for our times

2/1/2017

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They’re moving all the furniture–
rearranging for the sake of change.
 
We didn’t think they’d go so far:
toilets in the living room, toys 
chained in the yard, windows shuttered,
doors locked after throwing
the refrigerator on the lawn.
 
They cancelled garbage pickup,
and there’s talk of disconnecting
the phone and turning off the internet.
TV doesn’t matter any more,
and the papers pile up in the driveway.
 
The neighbor had a fire  that killed six people
last weekend, but no alarms sounded,
not even from the men with pepper spray
patrolling the sidewalks. No one was home anyway:
everyone was at the protest or locked up.
 
I saw my old girlfriend in handcuffs.
The streets were littered with pink hats.
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4/2/2018 04:53:29 am

Wao its interesting.Cleaning house a poem for our times really took me back in memories.My days and nights are just engaged in these days.

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    Gillnet Dreams
    ​Patrick Dixon

    I am a poet and writer of creative non-fiction and fiction. 
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    I write on two blogs, From the Field is about photography and the other is about fishing, life on the water, and really, everything else. That would be Gillet Dreams version one, the earlier version of this one, which has lots of past writings.

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