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House Sitting
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House Sitting

Living a Borrowed Life

There’s a cat

An old chubby cat

I don’t currently have a cat

So I get to borrow

YellowCat.

There’s a house

A Big White House

Where I am all alone

I get to borrow this

Solitude.

Each room

Soft colors I didn’t choose

Many photos of

Children I will never know

Like I’m stepping into….

Someone else’s life

Just for a time.

And I can slice the

Silence with a knife….

….If I could find one.

People’s spaces are

Organized according to

Their internal compass

Not mine.

Actions I can do

Mindlessly at home take

Special attention here.

The dishwasher, the microwave

Why is the refrigerator.... beeping?

?????

I could snowshoe out into

The field of a giant yard

And maybe I will…

Tomorrow.

I could soak away

The tensions of the day in the

Oh so wonderful

Hot tub.

And I probably will

Tonight…

And oh!

Here he is

YellowCat!

He’s shy with me but

We are making our way

Towards each other

Like strangers in

Borrowed lives.

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