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The Roll-Away Bed
When the roll-away bed came out
from the closet under the eaves,
that meant the cousins were coming .
My excitement
over having constant playmates
for a few days, paralleled
the fascination at a bed
that could fold in half, on
a wheeled metal frame.
We took turns, the cousins
and I,
laying across the bed , while
the others folded it up
around each of us, and....
pushed it back and forth
across the hardwood floors.
(Human hotdogs, hanging
out of their bun
on a wild ride)
Trouble was,
when the game was over,
I wanted to stay clasped in that clamshell
embrace
of the folded mattress.
I could keep my soul in place ,
for even as a child,
it wanted out of my body....
from the closet under the eaves,
that meant the cousins were coming .
My excitement
over having constant playmates
for a few days, paralleled
the fascination at a bed
that could fold in half, on
a wheeled metal frame.
We took turns, the cousins
and I,
laying across the bed , while
the others folded it up
around each of us, and....
pushed it back and forth
across the hardwood floors.
(Human hotdogs, hanging
out of their bun
on a wild ride)
Trouble was,
when the game was over,
I wanted to stay clasped in that clamshell
embrace
of the folded mattress.
I could keep my soul in place ,
for even as a child,
it wanted out of my body....
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