"Ode to My
Basement"
or...
"upon looking into my basement
window"
1.
Dark, damp, dirty basement.
Paint cans carefully littered about you.
The window painted by
cobwebs.
Leaves decades old sleep lazily on your
floor.
2.
Basement of my
childhood, you scared me.
Unknown creatures lurked about you.
You bore a litter of kittens once.
I kept one for a while and named it something silly.
3.
Look at you now; old, smelly basement.
You are on bottom and no one likes you.
Your tears make the house smell.
Your water heater's broken again.
coda
Simple basement in your
ugliness I see
beauty.
No basement but you could ever suit me.
--
Patrick Callihan