Metaphor Police A Collection of Poems from 2007 Richard P. Gabriel 2007 Contents How to Recall ...........................................................................................................................................................1 Roughing It................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Travel Date ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Blame for Life ............................................................................................................................................................ 4 I Felt the Cold Hand Last Night ............................................................................................................................ 5 Old Th ings In Mind ................................................................................................................................................. 6 Long Hours ................................................................................................................................................................7 Teach Nothing .......................................................................................................................................................... 8 Just In Case ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Up Coast .................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Another Night of Lights and Her ..........................................................................................................................11 Does Th is Matter ................................................................................................................................................... 12 Street Scenery ......................................................................................................................................................... 13 Does Science Change the Past .............................................................................................................................. 14 Both Hands Off the Wheel .................................................................................................................................. 15 Th is Device Again ................................................................................................................................................... 16 Stop For Refreshment .............................................................................................................................................17 Late Late Late Late Late ........................................................................................................................................ 18 Nowhere In a Car ................................................................................................................................................... 19 Oh Stories................................................................................................................................................................20 Inappropriately Famous ..........................................................................................................................................21 Pictures, Small Ones ..............................................................................................................................................22 Unproven ................................................................................................................................................................. 23 What An Animal ....................................................................................................................................................24 Odd Th ought .......................................................................................................................................................... 25 Bottle Hunt ............................................................................................................................................................. 26 Th oughts on Love Like Mud in a River................................................................................................................ 27 For Anything ...........................................................................................................................................................28 Counterexample ...................................................................................................................................................... 29 Simple Minds ..........................................................................................................................................................30 Warning ....................................................................................................................................................................31 Tracings .................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Again ........................................................................................................................................................................ 33 Revision Experiment No. 1 ...................................................................................................................................34 I Might Know Her ................................................................................................................................................. 35 True Enough ............................................................................................................................................................ 36 After Hearing ...........................................................................................................................................................37 Bridge Along ...........................................................................................................................................................38 Gubbish ................................................................................................................................................................... 39 LA Skyline in my Best Pants .................................................................................................................................40 Sharpened Points ....................................................................................................................................................41 On a Jet Plane ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 Problem Page........................................................................................................................................................... 43 Wrong Food.............................................................................................................................................................44 As A Dog ................................................................................................................................................................. 45 i Another Day Waiting.............................................................................................................................................46 Here No More .........................................................................................................................................................47 Tube at the Edge of Forever ...................................................................................................................................48 Seeming ................................................................................................................................................................... 49 Change of Luck .......................................................................................................................................................50 Anniversary...............................................................................................................................................................51 Trains on 66 ............................................................................................................................................................ 52 Tired & Rocky ........................................................................................................................................................ 53 High Desert ............................................................................................................................................................54 Caged ....................................................................................................................................................................... 55 Trip Changes ........................................................................................................................................................... 56 Kingman ...................................................................................................................................................................57