Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Nineteen
Spring 2009
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divorce
Michael Homolka

                      the house tripped and fell
and bled all over everything when I was ten

                                 it bled until I was eleven
                                            and then again
                                                                  till I was twelve

I heard a movie producer bought it a while ago and lives there with his family
           a few months out of the year

the house was always so clumsy on its tiny stilts

                                                                             it had a laugh
                                                       like goofy’s

my mother had a laugh like goofy’s

I drive by sometimes just to see if it’s still bleeding
           and snicker that it is

                                 good
                      let the new owners deal with it

though at the end of the block turning onto the boulevard
                                                       I understand

                                                                  the blood is invisible
                                                       to them

                      and the house only bleeds
           when I go back to look

About Michael Homolka

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