Hole In The Hedgerow

Poetry, Stories, and Other Musings With Spilt Ink


Props on a Stage

I want to live in a destination.

For touring tourists and passerby.

Our house a little speck

in the wrinkled corner

of any postcard you could buy.

We’ll sit outside pubs and cafes,

Like ridiculous props,

And we’ll laugh at them as they pass us by. 

While they take Polaroids of us,

From atop a roofless bus.

They’ll snatch that photo, 

and flap it excitedly.

We’ll slowly come to color,

Looking like props on a stage.

We’ll end up on fridges a thousand miles away,

in homes we’ll never see.



8 responses to “Props on a Stage”

  1. Nice poem! Thanks for sharing.

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  2. May your picture be stuck on with a strong magnet-

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  3. The highest honor a poet can achieve is to be magnetted to a fridge.

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    1. Very true words indeed

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