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Valerie Fox
The
Animal I See Every Day
She invested a lot of herself in the seventies.
When she redesigned the couch
she never quite got around to it.
She revisited some problematic episodes
from the fifth grade, and the animal she sees
every day always wants more and more affection.
Plexiglass leg meets hardwood floor
and they remove themselves
to a trendy thirty-something disco.
It's a tall order for any dwelling
but fake fur is better than shivering or shingles.
She has one uniform for resentment
and another one for reading.
While checking the baby's breathing
she wrote the rules
for her new board game.
It's called Cheat.
People can play it by mail.
round I, poem 13 (March
23) |
| Valerie Fox's new book of poems, The Rorschach Factory, will be
published this fall by Strawgate Press. email: Valerie Fox |
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