Thursday, August 28, 2014

wondering about feet


we used to have nice feet once
both of us
soft and kissable
in fact i remember licking
the smooth sole of your foot and those
little grooves behind your toes

mine are all calloused now
with grimy knots of leathery, pained
skin, the toes all splintered at the edges
like hard wood with dirt ingrained

unimaginable now, how i ever made love to you
the gnarled old man that i have come to be
sitting in a dingy squalid room with the leaky
bathroom, the only rickety window
overlooking a garbage dump that
also doubles as a cycle and scooter stand
through which a sow and her litter blunders

i wonder how you’ve aged, and
what your feet look like
i wonder


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