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by EKPoet

ABOUT EKPOET EKPoet is a habitual writer for many many years now. He started writing stories when he was ten, and then became interested in poetry in high school and college. He studied english poetry in college, has a degree in english, and did his thesis on comparing the poetry of W B Yeats and Seaumus Heaney. He has been writing poetry for 27 years, has completed two books, which are currently being posted, and is writing short stories currently. He loves music, art, travel, and literature and always can be found poolside with a book of some kind or other. Portfolio | Become A Fan

Plain paper Wrappings of mornings In the suburbs where we have lived our lives out Like incandescent light bulbs Plain wallpaper Painting the walls The walls of our apartments Where we sit in our houses The empty houses The empty houses on the blocks The empty houses on the blocks of streets The backyards behind the empty houses The conversations Recorded on the answering machines of telephones The drama of the television programs Raising the roofs Of the empty houses Beneath the empty skies Lit by streetlights The empty churches On the streetcorners Casting their pointed shadows Across the traffic in the streets Leading to the shopping centers The commuters on the suspension bridges Listening to the music on the radio stations The sunset on the railroad platforms