Sometimes, the hunger
that compels you to eat a
cookie is sadness.
Substitution
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Protection
Soldiers wear helmets.
Women wear makeup, styled hair.
Our mode of defense.
Fifth sense
Could I love you if
we did not touch, if I did
not mark you as mine?
Unbroken
The house of my heart
is white, clean, pure. No windows,
doors. No visitors.
Anticipation
Making travel plans,
like getting dressed for a date,
is a leap of faith.
Christmas tree lot
Sad orphans ripped from
the forest stretch out their limbs
pleading, ‘Take *me* home.”
Christmas lights
Like flickering tongues
of flame in green…blue…red. Just
plug in and enjoy.
VH1 shows
It’s the guilty splurge,
potato chips for the mind.
You can’t watch just one.
Picking Christmas trees
Like speed dating, if
they make a good impression,
they come home with us.
Deal or no deal
TV’s “Fisherman
and His Wife” story for our
times. Unalloyed greed.
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