you can stand outside

they say you can never go home
but you can find a place

just like it

a house with all the lights
turned off

a faint blue glow
of a television

seeping through the curtains
no sound

nobody watching it

angled light from the
open refrigerator door

sprawled across the kitchen floor
but no food

nobody standing in front if it
looking inside

an alarm clock
beeping in a bedroom
on the second floor
for years

without waking anything up

they say you can never go home
when you leave

you walk down the driveway
that reaches

out towards the street

like a twisted arthritic finger