Sunday, August 28, 2011

She Considers


Red Umbrella by Christopher Shay

She Considers

She'll do it neat
surgically quick
Lavoris-clean in white shoes
like a 1960s doctor

rendering him lobscouse
Capote-cold blood overhead
like an icky red umbrella

fresh fodder for ants and crows
left crusted in poison ivy
for the American Pickers to find

she drives off
in a Lyndon Johnson limousine
to a quiet destination for a smoke

it feels good...

but his eyes are open
looking at her
like she just stole his bicycle



Tess Kincaid
August, 2011

Posted over on her site Life at Willow Manor
Listed as #1 over on Magpie Tales 80

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