{"id":2116,"date":"2014-01-12T00:26:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:36:07","slug":"monday-doug-draime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/monday-doug-draime\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday by Doug Draime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monday<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0Doug Draime<\/p>\n

I take off my boots and place
\nthem on the floor in front of me. My
\nfeet burn and sting and my back is in
\na vase of torment. It\u2019s now 8:30 PM
\nand I\u2019ve been up since 6 AM
\nworking two different manual laboring
\njobs, which barely
\nkeep me in the game. I\u2019ve
\nmade love to Carol
\nas the sun rose over
\nthe mountains surrounding us. I\u2019ve
\nwritten 2 poems. I\u2019ve talked to
\na friend who failed his audition again
\nat the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I\u2019ve watched a little girl not
\nmore than 3 play hide and seek with
\nme, her beautiful face, her big brown eyes
\nlaughing and jumping
\nin the beauty shop window
\nacross the street from one of my jobs. I\u2019ve read some
\nAmira Baraka and
\nThe San Francisco Chronicle
\nfrom cover to cover. I\u2019ve sent poems off to a friend in town
\nwho publishes an alternative newspaper and I\u2019ve
\nsent poems to 4 poetry magazines. I\u2019ve discussed
\nthe meaning of life and Christ
\nwith an aspiring cretin. I\u2019ve talked to my sons on the phone
\nand heard my ex-wife in the background
\nscreaming in anger, asking what I
\nwanted. I\u2019ve watched the storm
\nclouds come slowly,
\nthe rain begin to fall. The dog
\ncurls up near my feet and Carol walks
\nby flossing and brushing her teeth, talking
\nto him. And as she finishes and begins
\nto wash the dishes,
\nthe thunder cracks
\nlike a cat-o\u2019-nine-tails and lightning
\nis illuminating the mountains surrounding us.<\/p>\n

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\nDoug Draime’s most recent book is More Than The Alley, released in 2012 by Interior Noise Press. Also available are five chapbooks: Dusk With Carol (Kendra Steiner Editions), Rock ‘n
\nRoll Jizz (Alternating Current Books), Los Angeles Terminal: Poems 1971-1980 (Covert Press), two online chaps: Speed of Light (Right Hand Pointing), Stoned On A Poco Stick (Zygote In My Coffee). Draime has been
\nnominated for several Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his wife and family on the outskirts of Medford, Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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