The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 3/13/06)

[RetroLounge]

I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone

The dogs greet me, I descend
into their world of fur and tongues
and then my wife and I embrace
as if we'd just closed the door
in a motel, our two girls slip in
between us and we're all saying
each other's names and the dogs
Buster and Sundown are on their hind legs,
people-style, seeking more love.
I've come home wanting to touch
everyone, everything; usually I turn
the key and they're all lost
in food or homework, even the dogs
are preoccupied with themselves,
I desire only to ease
back in, the mail, a drink,
but tonight the body-hungers have sent out
their long-range signals
or love itself has risen
from its squalor of neglect.
Everytime the kids turn their backs
I touch my wife's breasts
and when she checks the dinner
the unfriendly cat on the dishwasher
wants to rub heads, starts to speak
with his little motor and violin--
everything, everyone is intelligible
in the language of touch,
and we sit down to dinner inarticulate
as blood, all difficulties postponed
because the weather is so good.

Stephen Dunn

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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. wow!!!....me likey and it is happy....

whassup with that?



:hi:

[RetroLounge]

2. I slip up and wake up happy sometimes

:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

3. a dog NEVER ignores someone

who's just come in the door -- next to eating -- greeting is most important thing on earth.

[RetroLounge]

8. I feel the same way sometimes

:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

15. lol -- hey you're a guy.

need i say more?

[RetroLounge]

22. no

:rofl:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

4. That's just sweet

"everyone is intelligible in the language of touch"

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

9. Hey!

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Ah, my dear RetroLounge!

This is so much fun, so lovely and lively too!

I can see the picture very clearly.....

The domestic scene...so busy, happy and chaotic......

The way families are......

Thank you for the cheery mood today!

:loveya: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

10. I am rather Cheery for a Monday Morning

Zoloft = Good Shit Maynard...

:rofl:

RL

[RevCheesehead]

6. *woof*

:hi:

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

7. *meow*

:hi:

:hug:

RL

[RevCheesehead]

11. Quick! The kids aren't looking!

:bounce::bounce:

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

12. Gotta be quick around them

:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

RL

[RevCheesehead]

13. Whaddya think I am, a cat?

TWO is sufficient! :rofl:

[RetroLounge]

14. ...

:rofl:

RL

[RetroLounge]

16. kick

:kick:

RL

[yvr girl]

17. How to make this single girl wistful for a family

It's nice to have people care when you get home. *sigh*

[RetroLounge]

20. Yes, it was, and still is, with the kids...

Family is nice, if tenuous...

RL

[entanglement]

18. After much thought, critical analysis

and deconstruction, I have come to the conclusion that this poem lacks 'x's and 'z's :evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

23. Damn, you're good!

:hi:

:D

RL

[LaraMN]

19. It's like Norman Rockwell with an erection.

:rofl:

[RetroLounge]

21. Well, thanks for that visual...

Now I'm gonna need more therapy...

:rofl:

RL