682 : The Apartment

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Imaginary Garden with Real Toads invites us to write a quatern.

The Mag provided the image prompt.

The Apartment

They’re side-by-side but still apart,

The product of a building art

That gives a person somewhere to stay

But, in effect, locks them away.

Forming a body, but lacking a heart,

They’re side-by-side but still apart.

You can lie in bed through the night

And listen to some strangers fight.

The occupiers will seldom meet

As they scurry to and from the street

They’re side-by-side but still apart,

And interactions are à la Carte.

They’re called ‘apartments’ with good cause,

Boxes huddled on successive floors,

An architectural mockery of Descartes,

They’re side-by-side but still apart.

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© J Cosmo Newbery 2014

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