Monday, October 31, 2011

Hand-me-downs never seemed so nice

My job was holding her precious flowers

God forbid they rest on the table

She told me to pick up the white lace before the dirt would

grab hold.

She was indeed beautiful

I’m sure she would say the same

She also said mine was “clover-green”

More like knee-length piss silk to me

I hold my smile

Like she would a sticky toddler

A kiss, a bite of icing

and then 15 minutes

of $25,000 conclude

With clutched hands

my suedo-smile fades

As theirs open the honeymoon door

The wall that once shared gossip

tears and drunken banter

Now has no tenant

on the other side

In my sheets, the tears

are the only sound I have now

Away into the future, she went

Into the past I am stuck.

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