This Poem was Submitted By: Annie M Yates On Date: 2001-03-19 10:55:33 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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When I win the lottery   I'll sleep in a house     Decorated with glass unicorns; Each pointed horn a reminder   of a sharp jagged sorrow     I stumbled upon along my path; The rusted poetry in my head   will be replaced     by strawberry-flavored sonnets; My brilliant thoughts will spill   from soda fountain pens,     frothy and overflowing; My soles will be harbored in fine leather shrouds,   the latest shades of coffee and crimson     quickly tip-tapping along Fifth Avenue I'll have somewhere to be   upright and visible to the millions of faces     who step over my body each day; My teeth will be straight and white   and the boy on the corner who sells magazines     can't help but return my smile; Today he'll notice my eyes are blue   when he places the correct change     in my clean and polished hand; When I win the lottery,   this newspaper sheltering my head     will be balled up and tossed in the flames raging in my marble fireplace;   then after my meal, I'll sit and warm my feet     on yesterday's words and worries

Copyright © March 2001 Annie M Yates


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