Clockwise Cat Strikes Back
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Two Poems<br />
By Mel Waldman<br />
A Character in a Film Noir<br />
After a long, serpentine sleep, I wake up<br />
in a clockless place;<br />
dazzling glittering lights,<br />
the vastness,<br />
the heat,<br />
the whiteness,<br />
&<br />
dangling glass triangles swallow me-<br />
perched<br />
on<br />
the<br />
2 nd<br />
floor<br />
perpendicular to the elongated rectangular room below;<br />
&<br />
suddenly, the magical glow<br />
disappears;<br />
the hot, haunting lights<br />
dim;<br />
&<br />
the room darkens<br />
ominously;<br />
my gold eyes barely penetrate the thick veil of fog<br />
that permeates the vastness;<br />
a burning Pall Mall dangles from my parched lips,<br />
releasing a glimmer of light;<br />
&<br />
a man who identifies himself as,<br />
the Director<br />
(he looks
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