Monopoly
by Sue Stanford
[ poetry - january 07 ]
up the wrong tree and experience means thinking frantically of elsewhere. Move often enough and the show house is just one more in this interminable. Chess. Checking your mates out. There's a whole demographic, a whole damned country reading trends for Home Cooking and the Disappearing Kitchen. Rentals are up. You've bought onto that ladder but where does climbing go, if only a few rungs above and below can occupy your focus? Dog marks the limits of his patch. Dumber than us he cannot understand he's just one more example of the breed. Howling
