Closet
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Beast under bed
on top now,
orders coffee.
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Even monsters
grow up,
get jobs,
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visit retail
where you work
all day rush,
.
corner you
at bus stop
crying, say hi,
.
plan to attend
your funeral
in dance shoes.
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Chad Parenteau hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His latest collection is The Collapsed Bookshelf. His poetry has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The New Verse News, The Rye Whiskey Review, Nixes Mate Review and anthologies such as French Connections and Reimagine America. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine.
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North of Oxford 