Thursday, May 03, 2007

The Room

by Stephen Dunn


The room has no choice.

Everything that’s spoken in it

it absorbs. And it must put up with


the bad flirt, the overly perfumed,

the many murderers of mood—

with whoever chooses to walk in.


If there’s a crowd, one person

is certain to be concealing a sadness,

another will have abandoned a dream,


at least one will be a special agent

for his own cause. And always

there’s a functionary,

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