Monday, October 15, 2018
Living Environment
-By the way, your Jeanette is an
unfailing pleasure! One of those
persons always looks good.
-Unlike ME?...anyway, somehow
I’m not jealous of you.
-Especially at the start I mean.
You were one c-RAZY sight!
-I don’t mind telling you that you
scared the living crap outa me!
-I could see that.
-Not bad for somebody so microscopically thin.
-I do my best, as I thought I did before
being trapped in this bathroom mirror.
-Why mine? Perfectly fine one in your
own apartment.
-I don’t know, but it works out better
than being among strangers.
-Rented already?
-My powerhouse brother came and
put my shit into storage. Not much,
Salvation Army furniture, old books
and laptops.
-Your tablet you loved?
-In here with me. Don’t ask me how.
-But...charging it?
-Everything’s always charged in here.
-And have you googled your condition?
-Naturally. There’s a million questions
and no answers.
-Do you miss eating?
-Horribly, especially the coffee after!
-I could bring in a hot mug and steam
up the glass?
-Worth a try.
Labels: mirror, trap, trapped in mirror
Tuesday, June 02, 2015
Opposites Attract
For those who like music with their dancing,
arrangements can be made to play melodies.*
Renata needed no music, dancing every evening
while watching herself in her studio’s mirror.
So, she was fat and had just the one leg?
Grace was entirely possible.
As were grace notes, such as evinced by redoubtable Sweeney.
Who was fat and had one leg.
Opposite amputations.
“Darling mine!” he very nearly sang, “We’ll strap together
to make one powerhouse performance!”
She still didn’t know, kept imagining how it’d look in the mirror
as she studied herself there.
*Bob and Ray Routine
Labels: amputation, dancing, handicap, mirror, studio mirror
