my mom and I are walking through Big R
when I ask to leave, nervously crushing
my keys in my palm, the lady at the
front has this pleasant accent and talked
to me like I was a woman--I brush my fingers
across all the stacks of denim embroidered in
silver thread with gaudy buttons
we are in the parking lot and she says you didn't find anything?
and I think that all the carhartt hoodies looked like your chest and
all the jeans said you ruin everything down the seams, all I could see
was me swingin' around a hardwood floor that didn't exist--attached
to a hand that was fading away
but I say, no, nothin'.
Apr 29, 2016
Apr 29, 2016 at 8:15 PM UTC
my mom and I are walking through Big R
when I ask to leave, nervously crushing
my keys in my palm, the lady at the
front has this pleasant accent and talked
to me like I was a woman--I brush my fingers
across all the stacks of denim embroidered in
silver thread with gaudy buttons
we are in the parking lot and she says you didn't find anything?
and I think that all the carhartt hoodies looked like your chest and
all the jeans said you ruin everything down the seams, all I could see
was me swingin' around a hardwood floor that didn't exist--attached
to a hand that was fading away
but I say, no, nothin'.
(c) Brooke Otto 2016
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