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Bumps in the Night

Roger Cowin

Walking around, your slippered feet
scuffing the polish from the floor
between bed and bathroom,
the only light from refrigerator door.
The thump and crash of glass
smashing on the floor.
Sepia toned photograph of someone
who long ago stepped out of
this tedious business of life

Maybe because it’s America,
we don’t think of ghosts or vampires,
but serial rapists and anarchist
street mimes with prurient intentions
on our black wardrobe.

And certainly there’s something,
some reason, perhaps latent necrophilia
that causes the years dead screen queens
on the late, late show to appear
so desirable.

You hold the photograph in one hand,
corned beef sandwich in the other,
chewing nervously.
Pictures, after all,
don’t just fall off the wall.
A catalyst is required,
street mimes or a cult
of angry dwarves
offing anybody over five feet tall.
Pictures don’t just fall off the wall.

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