Saturday, January 27, 2024

Junk Drawer

I assume all men have a junk drawer

No matter how beautiful they seem

No matter how pristine their skin or scalp

No matter their voice thick sweet honey 

Or biting as virgin olive oil


In the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, or car

A box in the garage

A jar in the tree

A collection of treasures and atrocities

Mostly garbage trivial trash

Old tickets, receipts, coins and bottle caps

Momentos of shit

Precious nothing


Without sifting without debate

With cheers and laughter of disbelief

Relinquished mine

Shwooosh

From the bureau into the trash bin

In this moment mentally

Created a habit of maintenance

Synced with oil changes and tire rotations


While walking with peace

Out of the bush

A shadow 

My guilt, good deeds, failures trail me

I hear him meowing

A gray dusty kitten

Deprived of milk and abandoned






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