“WHERE MEN FEAR TO TREAD” 24 Oct 99

In these rooms
where our universes were made
in mornings and afternoons
where virgins were first laid
onto this thin carpet
for rituals to be an adult
we’d all rather forget

where children are conceived
domestic bills debated
a philanderer believed
and love, by small steps, becomes hatred
of small rooms and ambitions
the sights these shelves have witnessed
these are the rooms we live and die within

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