Doris Without Teeth
originally written for SLWP
By David Gabe JumonvillePublished 4 months ago • 1 min read
photo of my aunt, Pauline Florker - the poem's inspiration
Doris
without teeth
looked down
into a metal bowl of mush
thinking
a damn good thing
too
or they might have put her down
like the dogs
she crossed
one long
lean
leg
a twin
atop her sister
and said,
A damn good thing
two.
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