STRANGER
YOU’VE GOT THE EYES OF A STRANGER PLUMBER
This morning’s plumber said: I can tell by your eyes as I
groped for analogies between plumbing+psychotherapy
His company is called HTO because H2O was taken I
suggested he change it to HOT But then he got the wrong
idea +suggested a beach holiday in Playa del Carmen
I demurred saying Baja is more my speed He made out the bill
for $516.94 For you I added the heavy duty putty Listen buddy
I am heavy duty enough laid waste by the trenches of humanity He
became garrulous Your voice too There’s just something about you
I seem to have this effect on plumbers Car salesman too
The two I bought recent cars from attempted moves so brazen +corny
it was a total turn on That juxtaposition of ballsy +thick as a brick As
plumber +I traded wet dreams +moist chitchat he burst into tears Water
dripping onto my ankle wrapped around the leg of his chair But what future
is there?
He scurried back to his sink holes mould snaking pipes +the like And I
back to the business of wrenching souls from holes some of their own
making others the kind where fate has taken them kicking+screaming
To which they return again +again Pipe dreams of escape are free Not
so psychotherapy
In the midst of this reverie water exploded out of my new Moen faucet
(For you only $333.00) I realized there+then HOT plumber was the man for
me Upon his return we exchanged choked pleasantries as I packed quickly
I left a note for husband #3:
Playa del Carmen beach with Poseidon of my dreams I told you there would
be consequences for cunting in the fields instead of fixing the leak –
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*(cunting in the fields.. stolen from Griffin Poetry Prize winner 2017..
$75,000 awarded for said mouthful)
Summer 2018
songanddancegirl 