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'Everything's fine with us,' she replied,
closed the window and threw the tea down the sink.
Routines are made of tiny revolutions.


I wait perched on my convictions,
a sated hawk,
and she goes and turns the kettle on, again. It won't make the noise of the tv die out,
but the table is full of half-eaten crackers,
and all the noise in the world will not dull her thoughts out,
but as down is for the dying,
she goes and lights herself another cigarette,
turns the kettle off,

and it's monday again.
She's a monday girl today, sorting through
appointments with the hairdresser's and
old grocery bills.

It all has to pass.
My claws encase a piece of advice I'm not letting go,
I'm all bird ears and spring compassion;
dear, I think, you don't know what love is.

If I can predict her she'll stand up,
dump the old coffe on the potus,
pretend to wash her teeth to hide a sob.

She's the kind to trade a sleepless night for pink enemel,
the kind to talk hours with the tv on
so that she cannot hear her own words.
A saturday girl that goes to sleep
her monday late on a matress of lies,
but
it's not night yet,
and a day is as good as any to change, or is it?

I won't ask.
'Everything's fine with us,' she'll reply,
and we'll both know the truth despite the background noise, but hey,
who knows.

Routines are made of tiny revolutions.


For :iconskinnywords:'s prompt:

III. LINES FORM BOOKS
Take the last line from a book & use it in your short poem.

Book: PRACTICAL NORWEGIAN GRAMMAR [it was the only book I had at hand, ok?]
Line: <<Det står bra til med oss,>> svarte hun. (<<Everything's fine with us,>> she replied.)
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AmuletStar's avatar
That's a damn incredible piece of writing to come out from the last line of a grammar book. XD