LIST POEM

List: A poem that is made up of a list of items or events. It can be any length and rhymed or unrhymed.

Stand back!  I need to open up the drawer

You know, that one that holds our odds and ends.

It's just a rubber band I'm looking for

to hold the fresh glued bud vase as it mends.

There's bottle caps and batteries of all kinds

I don't need pamphlets, lipstick, cord or tacks

or brackets for those long gone kitchen blinds

Not nail clippers, or buttons in small sacks

Why did we keep these crooked wire ties?

This recipe for fruitcake can be tossed

A little sticker book of butterflies

and here's that locker key we thought we'd lost

Ketchup packets, garden seeds, and chalk

a magnet holding paper clips and screws

a partial tube of leaking bathtub caulk

and laces from a pair of tennis shoes

There's a safety pin and picture hanging wire

a photo of somebody I don't know

a fabric softener ball for in the dryer

A toy that, when you squeeze it, it will glow

Old addresses scrawled on sticky notes

eyeglass cases, super glue and tape

clippings of newspaper anecdotes

a tie-back from that ugly purple drape

Here's that thing to open the garage

hair clipper blade that's tangled in a brush

receipts in bathtub caulk like decoupage

and directions when I need a caffeine rush

Here's a broken ruler that should be replaced

this bookmark and a coupon that's expired

a holey swatter that has been defaced

and headphones used for music I admired

No tree will grow if I don't plant these seeds

Darn! The eyeglass kit I needed yesterday

A wooden dowel that my old rocker needs

My, this faded flag has gotten kind of gray

Several pennies in a little purse

a car wash token, hairpins everywhere

a children's book about the universe

a ribbon from a tiny teddy bear.

Truck keys for a GMC that's dead

fish food for a fish, but he's dead too

More of those black hairpins for my head

I think I can stop buying them, don't you?

Now wait a minute, I must stop and think

I cannot rummage through here anymore

I think I'll just relax and have a drink

then try remembering what I'm looking for.