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By Misti Date: 2001 Sep 24 Comment on this Work [[2001.09.24.22.53.11121]] |
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Monday night and I need to vacuum put the dishes away mop the kitchen floor iron our wrinkled clothes meditate aerobicize to my new '80s crap cd instead I am collecting a few of my favorite movie quotes and photos thinking up poems to show the shine that transcends the dust and mildew and mercury balls in the bathroom sink colored with old nail polish to camouflage the stains I can't scrub away I do love you I love how you tolerate my need to be alone and create I love how you laugh when I mispronounce incandescent you always beat me at air hockey we take turns punching the T-Rex you blew up and filled with water you have your Goobers and Sugar Babies and I have my Green Apple Starbursts and Goodart's Peanut Patties we agree that Cincinatti women tend to be the snippiest AARP members and that the whole world should have nothing more to worry about than a subscription to Modern Maturity and ten dollar paper cards... |