House of Cards (early 1980s)
I walked into a house of cards,
Surprised that I could open the door;
The residents were surprised by me,
That a dimension beyond one side
would take up equal dwelling space.
My resolutions case aside,
I could only state the obvious,
and they found that most complete;
"Be careful not to laugh too hard,
You might blow away the floor."
I wished myself into a dream
state,Where cards were
replaced--By fortune
tellers,And gravity was
not the sole foundation,
And found it useless.
Laughing that the steel beams and
concrete that had built a nation
Had become my paper creation,
With a cry of "Caution!" from the
diamond king,I destroyed
the paper floor,The
immobile faces on the queens altered in dismay.
"Enough of the balancing of
perspectives," I said.
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The Poetry of Vonne Barnett |
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