A TENEMENT ON JONES STREET

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    A TENEMENT ON JONES STREET

    A TENEMENT ON JONES STREET

     

     

     

    A string of clear rope lights hang

    overhead .

    “Those are stars” she said.

    “We can’t see the real ones from

    here so these will have to do.”

     

    But the wine is real,

    as the cap

    is unscrewed.

    She told me that she loved me

    with all her heart,

    but not her eyes.

    I told her the same lies ,

    but with me it was just

    a matter of

    thighs.

     

    So here we sit under our

    make believe stars

    with no moon

    and the

    flowered wallpaper hangs lifeless

    between the curtains.

    We drink our wine and

    make believe it is

    tomorrow.

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    Doshima commented on A TENEMENT ON JONES STREET

    06-11-2010

    In a way, most of us live in a world of make blieve, deriving a sort of contentment or thrill , a cup of real wine bespeaks a lot,
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    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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