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House of Waiting #Poetry by Gabriel Ricard from Love and Quarters

7/23/2018

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HOUSE OF WAITING
BY GABRIEL RICARD 
FROM 
LOVE AND QUARTERS


There eight or nine hundred pictures,
taped to the walls of your bedroom.
 
Magazines,
pictorial history books,
and Polaroids you stole from people,
back when those things were readily
available to small, lonely thieves.
 
All of them had already met
your criteria for sainthood.
Next stop: the world.
I was there to get you some help.
I was there to talk to you
for as long as it would take for you to trust me.
 
If nothing else,
you needed to finish college.
 
I was staring at this photo of Hedy Lamar.
My shirt was stuck to my back.
You had rich friends. Why in the hell couldn’t one
of them alleviate their guilt by getting you
a window AC unit?
 
My breathing was going to die,
if my legs dragged my lungs
up one more flight of stairs.
Would have come for you sooner,
but those goddamn stairs.
 
And other things,
but those stairs, too.
 
You got the screwdriver into the back of my neck
when I was waiting for Hedy to tell me all about
those boring Hollywood pill parties.
I woke up on a Chinatown bus.
Clean shirt. Fresh bandages.
Weak-willed cold air freezing my elbow to death.
 
You had made your feelings very clear,
but it still would have been nice to talk to you for a little while.
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11/16/2018 10:15:44 pm

This is the very first time I've heard about Gabriel Ricard , but I really love the poem that he wrote. The poem was short, but it was able to deliver its message. How I wish I have the capacity to write as good as him because what he did was impressive. Because of this, I tried searching for more poems that he wrote because I want to know his style in writing, and it wasn't a failure! I was able to see a glimpse of his personality and I am now a fan of his writing style.!

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