PRIVATE COLLECTION


I got tons of pictures

stuffed in shoe boxes,

stacked in cupboards,

spread loose in the couch,

lost under the bed.

You know, snapshots.

Goin' back to when I was a baby,

an' every relative, friend

in between--birthdays,

Christmas, Easter, whatever,

an' even some after the accident.

Tons of pictures I never look at

but don't have the guts

to throw away.



It’s hard to take seein’

What you was an’ now ain’t.

Poem by Joseph Lisowski