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BROCCOLI AFTER MAKING LOVE by Richard Freed

Outside I cook the hamburgers
and you broccoli in the kitchen.
Seven days a week
it's all you eat.

I make me some peas.
At dinner two of them roll from
my fork like mallets on a tympani
and suddenly autumn begins
to run through our lives.

Moments ago in the other room
we lay on the bed
like two young kids on a raft
watching our clothing heaped

and scattered about the floor.
First one old would be
like these garments, you said:
Skins we would look on
and wonder how they were ours.

© Richard Freed

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