homeless

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  • Lost Love
    • catarino
    • Cultures come to conquer and their gods applaud.

    homeless

    i feed your homeless hips
    behind doors and outside-
    some nights beneath
    bridges.

    you give me your lips
    on crumpled money
    saved in humid pockets-
    wet mornings.

    on a cardboard sign
    you write why you'd
    like to leave,

    while i sit here beggin-
    legs crossed and hands
    held open to get
    back in.

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    mamasan commented on homeless

    11-10-2009

    Your poem has strains of bitter sweet and perhaps unrequited love stories; of perhaps of stark homelessness. The phrasing of your words is not the ordinary and gave me food for thought. Thanks caterino.

    M4n1s commented on homeless

    07-24-2009

    did you imply that being homeless could happen to anyone? That "I" therein is homeless,too?

    catarino

    07/24/2009

    true, anyone can become homeless- and some choose to be. I think I tried to relate the feeling of insecurity or fear in living outside of a home and/or living outside a lover's acceptance.

    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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