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Gramps applies unguentine
and a mixture of baking soda
and super glue with desenex
and cera-vu moisturizing lotion
over lidocaine with benadryl
vitamin e vitamin c zinc and
what have you nothing works
until by chance in a little
side drawer in the bathroom
looking for something else
he discovers an old tube of
rite-aid brand cortisone-based
anti-itch cream that had never
been opened. what are the odds!
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
divine
Posted by: Grace Cavalieri | November 05, 2022 at 10:16 AM