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Karen Miller: Bedroom Community

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

Over coffee he says
how sometimes on his own
he unloads those 2,000 pounds
of frozen chickens
he drove across four states.
He demonstrates his muscles,
he bares his teeth.
She picks up the bill,
saying, uh huh, uh huh, sweetly, uh huh, uh huh.
She is not so much settling as sleeping
her New Jersey sleep
through the windshield not seeing
her beautiful and sad, overweight New Jersey.
Always autumn it seems, too gray for real seeing,
leaves catching on wipers,
and the car
unwashed
since when.

Filed Under: Contributors 70, Issue 70, Poetry, Poetry 70 Tagged With: Contributors 70, Karen Miller, Poetry, Poetry 70

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