<DIV><p><I>I hear the dinner plates gossip<BR>Mom collected to a hundred.<BR>My friends say get on board,<BR>but I'm not bored. Dad's a nap</I></p><p><I>lying by the fire. That's why<BR>when radios broadcast news,<BR>news broadcast from radios<BR>gives air to my kinship, Dickey,</I></p><p><I>who says he'd go dead if ever<BR>I discovered him to them.<BR>I took care, then, the last time<BR>bedrooms banged, to tape over</I></p><p><I>the outlets, swipe the prints<BR>off DVDs, weep up the tea<BR>stains where once was coffee.<BR>Not one seep from him since.</I></p></DIV>