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Front Doors
There’s a woman next door scolding her dog
and some guy in his front yard smoking a cigarette
and an old man across the street mowing the lawn
and there are hundreds of cars passing by.
We share the common ground of our front yards,
fried and dried from too much sun - the sunshine state where
neighbors wear shorts in the middle of January
and sweat mowing their lawns
We share a common ground but there are fences
and front doors and beyond those places we lead
lives of yelling of grieving of dying of loving
and
We can’t show our faces, the backs of our doors
because they aren’t clean and we need time to clean for company
and
our lawns our nice but our homes are dirty, filthy, unsightly -
so we keep our doors locked.
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