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April 5, 2008

It is easy

It is easy to feel inadequate
at Home Depot, where ceilings stretch
so high, we might as well be crawling.
I want to carry two-by-fours out
hoisted on my shoulders too,
but I can’t– I have a backache.

Posted in a poem, poetic april

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Joan says:

April 6, 2008 at 2:02 am

Ice and Ibuprofen my dear…kx

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