Clutching Our Styrofoam Cups
Just ask Him, somebody said
Then somebody else
Clutching our styrofoam cups
Ask Him into your hear
Into my heart?
Into my windowless, squatters' nest heart?
And, so I did
By moon and in absolute Black
Eyes tight or aflutter
Upright in a chair
Or felled like a timbermill tree
I asked him into my heart
I did so again
And again
Over the next grimy years
I asked him into the box of my heart
I last asked a month ago or so
Then, it dawned on me
Between pills, rum and slumber
It dawned on me like the tap on the shoulder
Made by a falling piano
I'd been no suitable host
My heart was not warm and inviting
Its clutter was blocking the door
Its walls were thickened with declarative spray paint and spit
I had nothing to offer by way of a comfortable chair
I thought to myself, there is time
(For I believe in such things when they suit me)
I had time to tidy and scrub
To sort and to haul and to make us some tea
And do something or other
With this face
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Submitted on October 22, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 920 |
Words | 191 |
Stanzas | 31 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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