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Outlocked

March 7, 2022
By Jackie_Huang PLATINUM, Scarsdale, New York
Jackie_Huang PLATINUM, Scarsdale, New York
20 articles 37 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
Everything happens for a reason


There’s a man next door

a newcomer

between each gap ajar seeps in his presence


who enters every bathroom, every stall and acts like

an acting janitor in with each stroke

plastic toothbrushes precisely lines

the wrinkles on his cargo pants


such in the afternoon, he mows the grass

invisible on our yellow lawns

Next to a poor exhibition of his towers 

of stringy leaves and mud he worked hours on 


In an instant we hear the quiet snores

traversing in a chorus that sings only left not right

Next to his favorite wall

Sleep on a single side in odd dreams


Yet 

we laugh

we laugh

we Laugh


Before

 

the sharpened toothbrush lies only once more 

in grass, leaves and mud

sucked into a hole

In the wall


I can still hear the echoes

from the next cell


Before the man next door was gone.


The author's comments:

sometimes the people we think are crazy are the only normal ones...


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Afra ELITE said...
on Mar. 15 2022 at 5:08 am
Afra ELITE, Kandy, Other
102 articles 7 photos 1819 comments

Favorite Quote:
"A writer must never be short of ideas."
-Gabriel Agreste- (Fictional character- Miraculous)

True!!! I agree with you!!!
Good work getting this lovely poem on editor's choice...⭐⭐⭐