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RoomsAuthor(s): Frank StanfordSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring, 1974), p. 20Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20158213 .
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ROOMS
A boy sits on the mantle with a piece of string Tied to his tooth A big woman rocks by the fire
With a pan of peas in her lap
On the radio they say a convict
Is loose and heading this way The boy stares at the doorknob
Like a soft-shell turtle on a log
That coward who tipped off the law Leans on the pool cue in the corner
He can t sleep The hinge sings like a falling tree
Someone moves among cattle
Someone is blamed for all misfortune
The fat woman rocking near the door
Laughs at the boy with the sleeve over his eyes
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