It smells of cigarettes and 12 year old regrets.
Matted shagged rugs with creeping, crawling bugs.
There’s shouting from the back.
Humming coming from a ***** metal box.
A shrill announcement that it's time to get our fill.
We race back while trying not to spill.
In my bowl is the same hard heat of imitated meat.
I run my finger across the couch. A halo of polyester,
where too long an ember was permitted to fester.
My friend had dawned new clothes,
a flashy new skin, but a month’s gone by.
Holes now show what she’s hidden.
Uncertain, she’ll dawn a new curtain.
Whether a lack of communication or a thoughtful hesitation
to force another her burden.
Jan 4, 2020
Jan 4, 2020 at 1:48 AM UTC
It smells of cigarettes and 12 year old regrets.
Matted shagged rugs with creeping, crawling bugs.
There’s shouting from the back.
Humming coming from a ***** metal box.
A shrill announcement that it's time to get our fill.
We race back while trying not to spill.
In my bowl is the same hard heat of imitated meat.
I run my finger across the couch. A halo of polyester,
where too long an ember was permitted to fester.
My friend had dawned new clothes,
a flashy new skin, but a month’s gone by.
Holes now show what she’s hidden.
Uncertain, she’ll dawn a new curtain.
Whether a lack of communication or a thoughtful hesitation
to force another her burden.
