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Eric Doubt
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RATS IN OUR LAP
In my father's lap I found comfort
about age four accidentally locked in
at the top of the basement stairs
looking down into the dark unknown
rat ridden hole my back against the door
I turned away blinded by terror
of the climb down to another exit
pounding my fists against the glass and
wood and screamed forever until
miraculously you came Dad in your
leopard skin dressing gown gathered
me up into the kitchen and rocked me
in the sunlit space by the window.
That was the last time I can find that
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we sat together in comfort or for not
father knowing my panic did it recall
your own tumbling half parachuted out
of a blown up sky hiding from capture
and dying from fear only a few years
before and today having had to finally
climb down the stairs a few times
myself to face the rats that were never
there in the darkness that is looking
for ways back and ways out fighting
with fists pounding on the doors of
my skull and who sits in my lap or yours
but the rats that have multiplied over the years.
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- April 2026
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17 FriReceived a critique
on RATS IN OUR LAP from @Geezer
"that my profile is sadly out of date; I haven't ridden in quite a while, I use a phone to take my pictures now, and I can't have a dog where I am living. [I don't have two ex-wives, because I have outlived the first two…" -
12 SunReceived a critique
on RATS IN OUR LAP from @Geezer
"the lack of punctuation and capitalization, does this piece no justice. I read and reread the lines about your father sitting together in comfort, before finally deciding that the bumble that I was looking at, was merel…" -
12 SunFirst publication
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08 WedJoined Neopoet
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First poem published 4 days later.
About Me
About me
Hello. I’m here. Retired from career in marketing and communications. Have worked in Haiti in the rehabilitation and physical medicine field since 2006. Producing a film on the blues. Father, grandfather and soon to be great grandfather. Have been writing poetry since university days. Self produced one book. Not published.
Location: Ontario, CAN
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