So fresh the electrons are still moving

Todd,  Nice pictures.  I'm not sure if you are drawing the type or antitype, but that is the way with poems. Leave it up to the reader.  I guess, in line with the title, it could be about the decor, but it is very human and emotional which touches on the spiritual and leave one with hope.  I like that aspect better.  I really don't like the "polished by maintance/at mimimum wage."  In this pithy picture, I don't see the connection. Ok, I reread it and it makes sense. The cleaning crew in an elite office...  I like the choice of orange for the connection.  Very thoughtful.

Well, here I am less than a week from Christmas, ripping the gift wrap off one poem after another.  It's just plain greed.  I am struggling to write (poetry, non-fiction, fiction) from places other than my tiny world, and I enjoyed this comparison.  I liked thinking about an atypical subject.  It made me want to look wider than the topics that occur to me easily, find out what I know and think about something different for a change.  Thank you for that.

One thing did bother me.  Is the tiger on the oak floor or the wall?  I'm a little worried he's a trophy head made to look down on his own skin as a rug.  Say it ain't so.

Karen,

I am glad you noticed the separation of body and head; no additional discomfort was intended.

p.s.  No actual animals were used in the creation of this fiction.

Todd

Poetry requiring a wrangler!

I'm having trouble connecting the title to this poem.  Just can't get it to fit.  I see stark truth and irony here... makes me think... wonder if office and home could be occupied by the same person???  I like the minimum wage bit because it is so real... and the cheap labor of the rifle bearer, the cleaning person of the DA's office (my addition).
And I keep thinking about the messages in this poem.  Thanks, Todd.  Dewell

Dewell,

I am checking the new format color of text first.  The title of the poem is "Surreal Decor."

TS

Crazy at my house.  Hope I can make sense. 
Irony and fun.   Surreal:   dreamy, weird, fantastic.   Not real.
Okay.   Tiger on wall of the rich office.  Strong enough to make victims dead.  But they are killed and displayed on wall.  Owner of office is so proud of it.  Displays it. Poor workers clean the wall mounting.?????   Then the D.A's office:  they walk around in pinstriped suits.   they catch and release?   or Witness Protection.   And they have pride about releasing.  Just like the killers of the tiger:  pride filled, both of them, about what they did with/to the subject.  Aren't we a strange and savage lot????  Don't know if my interpretation is right, but I enjoyed the comparison/contrast.