how many of john's angels
watch dish dirt harden
daydream about cowboys that could have been
how many husbands come home from work in the evening
and watch the news, numbing their mind
from thoughts of the gap between the man they are and the man they wanted to be
how many children
grow up in a house haunted by the spiderweb-covered ghost of love
never hearing the real story of how their parents met
unable to imagine the passion of lovers
only the routine of two who have given up
sleeping in separate beds in separate rooms
blaming everything from insomnia to sleep disorders to stertor
how many women want to turn into angels that fly from dusty houses
how many men want to be the wand that does the turning
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