Wednesday, September 9, 2020

day THIRTEEN HUNDRED and THIRTY ONE

Sex in a Time of Coronavirus

Washed out
dirty blonde
woman

once pretty
now on
the downside
of worn out

average on
a good day

in supermarket
with just-reached-
puberty daughter

Mom’s well worn
t-shirt says:
“4 out of 5 doctors
recommend oral sex”

a leering face
with flapping
tongue embossed
beneath the phrase

I have to wonder
what does the daughter
think about being
in public with a mom
who wears a t-shirt
like that?

trying to be invisible
and failing
eyes down on her
phone to her BFF

Who will she be
in 10 years?
20?

--Alan Catlin



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