Sunday, 31 December 2023

It Changes Nothing

 

It Changes Nothing

 

 

She’ll have off ripe avocado smashed on toast,

calls them out in the queue, some slothful boast

about having to perch two poached eggs on top;

break yolks. Rolls adjectives around her tongue

and fanciful still she fancies they fancy her young,

solid set, thick scarf mad dash for window seats,

opens rubber jaws, thicker lips, drools and eats.

Halfway across town and here’s Dobson grappling

sheets, towels, sacking while wild wind howling

around his ankles, unbuttons cuffs and growling,

whipping his denims into threads, fills his head

with oncoming storms, with apocalyptic dread,

he’s offering her a lottery for laundry, so she said,

shuffling her grey coveralls in opposable directions,

rolls her eyes, staring grim at that darker reflection

and as his eyes offend her, she'll close her curtains.




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