Yesterday I laid everything out on the carpet Books, things, objects specific purpose or none Arranged them in a grid On the floor there, Out of context and then it First the whole picture, then individually Humming at the deadest pace imaginable One object, another, and then the next And I wondered they meant there If they meant anything
notes, supplies, A you bought in the desert, Wildflowers'. Pictures vacations, parties, Kitschy gifts we from rest stops On that road out West Objects, Everything And memory
All of it out there In the room The room The hallway, and the basement, and the From room we called the office But used In the Everything out there on the floor On the carpet, out of
And I sat for hours
Today I everything from the floor To the table in the room Placed each carefully without reason Or at least without one I or could describe There, on the table, together and I was done I back I realized what I had made Keepsakes, pictures, objects all collected there
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And I of ones on highways or set by gravestones All the things you see but don't understand But still bring a remembered back vividly Invoke someone's reality when there In that in that way out of context And I I had to take it down Before anybody saw Tomorrow I to put them all somewhere Those In of the road Attic All these things that push and me through history To places I once was, places I have gone, Places I ended up
Ticket stubs from one thing or A personalized coffee mug neither name nor mine Phone and old phones A page from an old calendar I once At a thrift store and insisted on That of the moon print Old of mine
Put them in
And I sat for hours In the living first Then in the dining things around Picking things up and seeing they took me To what place in What on our timeline Where we were, where I was, where I we'd end up In house or on the highway Driving somewhere Christmas In the or anywhere else
And I put in boxes