Hold a Hair to My Head

[sobraniye_stikh]

At the grocery store I fawn over pyramids of perfect oranges. I crawl beneath the dais, holding one in each hand & roll them over my fingers, gloating at their smooth luster & admiring the image of myself, a circus performer, juggling two copper comets as an audience sits charily awaiting a mistake. The people walk by, curtly making sly remarks;

Comments

[vivisection]

I prefer the freezers. I like to reach my warm little hand in & then pull it out. I've not gotten what i wanted. I have to wait until the door defrosts so i can see what i want. & then repeat.
I'm practicing for siberia.

v.

[sobraniye_stikh]

you need to stop being so goddamn lovable. i'm afraid of the freezer or i was before we got rid of it

& then i wanted one again.
it was always empty. they said, "begin at the beginning" but no-one listened.

(you're barred from siberia. no exile for the exiled.)

loves & never kisses,
k.

[vivisection]

O, i'm not lovable. I'm positively awful. & frigid.

v.

[sobraniye_stikh]

modest & meek.
mild & muh..motherly?..

..i'm running out of ems.

k.

[indelibly]

you are such a great writer, also, get online...

[sobraniye_stikh]

1- i'm an awful liar
2- i did & you weren't on
3- i miss you (clumsily)

k.

[indelibly]

tell them their reply made me rawffle.

[sobraniye_stikh]

i don't get it

xo
- k.