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[aid] => mick
[title] => Kitty
[time] => 2006-11-19 21:21:53
[hometext] => It's never anyone's problem
[bodytext] => Oh Kitty I would never watch you die I would have hollered from my window Or tossed a (geranium) pot from my planter box At least But last night you were alive Your dollface Just the three of us having a smoke In some cafe, never been there before But I couldn't see his ugly mug Just your pretty face Frozen (oh those eyes) asking all of us the question Printed in New York Times and magazines waiting for an answer Thirty-eight law-abiding, upstanding, God-fearing taxpayers Perfectly respectable (wearing the flag on November eleven) Perfect strangers (only the postman knew their names) Kitty used to pass in the parking lots and porticoes Catching but never fetching their eye As she bumped into the gent from the corner flat With the double-breasted mohair Shopping for groceries, did their eyes meet When they stopped heal to heal in the aisle With cake mixes (in bags) and bread stuffing (in boxes) Or what about their faces peering back from the glass display With the iced fish and chilled meats Was ever a moment captured in the glancing? But most of life escapes When Kitty screamed and made her pleas What a slap in the face (to be left alone!) To the private life behind each apartment and window (and door and peephole) Not one would accept the invite Turn the other cheek and turn the other way (and for God's sake turn the channel) Your dollface pressed into the concrete Waiting for an answer That your heart was never pressed into vinyl Thirty-eight blameless and nameless for your death Because behind closed doors, Cars, careers, families and game shows You were never alive [comments] => 2 [counter] => 163 [topic] => 8 [informant] => pipesmcgavin [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => AmericanTragedy )
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