A Thing I
written by: Paul Brookes
@PaulDragonwolf1
A Thing I
Do.
Lick my finger and thumb
wet them for purchase
tease apart the opening
of a plastic bag she requests
to hold her items. She grimaces,
winces as opens the carrier
I pass to her, says “Sorry.
fingers being licked repulses me.
It is a thing I do.” She teases
apart the most innocuous
of my actions, opens them
for fresh thoughts.
Paul Brookes is a shop asst. Lives in a cat house full of teddy bears. His chapbooks are The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley (Dearne Community Arts, 1993), The Headpoke and Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press, 2017), A World Where and She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018), The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Port Of Souls (Alien Buddha Press, 2018), Forthcoming Stubborn Sod, illustrated by Marcel Herms (Alien Buddha Press, 2018).
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