Merry-Go-Round

1. PKP says:

   August 15, 2012 at 11:43 pm

   
   

   

   
   

   

   
   The Merry-Go-Round *

   Why is it people always sit down
   At the rush of oncoming bad news
   She thought as she folded onto the
   The top step and clicked accept
   And slumped against the wall

   But, it was not!
   What they thought
   It was
   She exhaled

   And her mother

   And she laughed

   Like crazy people
   Flooded with relief
   That dripped between
   Her breasts and down
   Her back

   Later on the way to visit him
   She stopped at a café
   For espresso in a tiny heavy cup
   And cheesecake
   Savored each morsel and sip
   In the bright sunshine
   Watched two lovers kiss

   That night finally she
   Slept, deep and dreamless
   Until the phone chirped
   Cheerily in the morning
   And she with a lingering
   Smile answered as her
   Mother sobbing
   Titled the world on its
   Axis
   And she under
   The sunslanted duvet
   With no wall to slump
   Jumped straight up
   And stood

   As a childhood carousel
   Whirled around her
   The horses frozen mouths
   Open – as a calliope cackled

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