Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOTEL, by GAYLE GIBLIN


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HOTEL, by                    
First Line: A thousand rooms in a beautiful home
Last Line: This home is a grotesque fantasy.
Subject(s): Home; Hotels; Rooms; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses


A thousand rooms in a beautiful home
For men and women who like to roam.
Hundreds of unseen feet and hands
Ready to rush at slightest commands.
A million dreams of a journey's end
A haven to thousands who have a friend.
Rivers of tears and grim despair,
To tens of thousands who anchor there.
Happiness -- loneliness -- side by side.
Each has his alcove -- each has his pride.
And whom shall know the good or bad
And which are happy and which are sad?
A thousand doors -- all barred to me.
This home is a grotesque fantasy.





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