The Meeting
The Meeting
By Rebecca Mackenzie
You held the audience captive
for an hour until heads slipped off of hands
And eyes grew sticky
from staring too hard at the gleam
on your bald pate
Dancing back and forth
As you bloviate beneath
Fluorescent lights suspended
from stained Styrofoam paneling
Nobody believing
your baldness is
a deliberate decision
After consulting the mirror,
I know now when I suck in my top lip,
Trying to affect neutrality
My mouth forms a hangdog grimace
A basset hound waiting for the screen door
To open
I’m not fooling
anyone either
About this poem
This poem is about the feeling you get when someone is talking at you and you cannot focus on the words, but rather the speaker. You feel a certain amount of pressure to feign a look of interest, but you realize you're not very good at it.
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Written on October 12, 2023
Submitted by rhmackenzie25 on March 22, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A XXAXXXXXB BXC DXAXXC BD |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 568 |
Words | 110 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 3, 6, 2 |
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