Monday, April 12, 2010

In This Room

http://www.globalenvision.org/files/1950%27s%20family.jpg

they sat in a circle with their coffee-cups.
one dropped in a lump of sugar,
one stirred with a spoon.

i saw them as a circle of ghosts
sipping blackness out of beautiful china,
and mildly protesting against my coarseness
in being alive.

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