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Staying at Home: Wall Talk

ʻIdál (Justice), 8 Jalál (Glory) 177 B.E. Wednesday, April 15, 2020

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Staying at Home: Wall Talk
These walls are made for talkin’!
The popcorn’s poppin’ and we’re all rubbing our hands together in anticipation of what we’re about to read. We’re ready for the whole story, no matter how funny!
Are ya ready, walls? Start talkin!

Apartment walls are paper thin
and let all the outside noises in.

They speak to those who listen
with anticipation
to the memories concealed
beneath layers of off-white paint.

Walls cannot keep secrets,
they hear with invisible ears,
they speak with invisible mouths,
they whisper about the fears
of their present
and their past inhabitants..

Walls air everyone's dirty laundry,
they intone the wishes
and hopes
of the neighborhood.