Saturday, January 12, 2008

The man with the bent head

She wobbled toward me

The woman with a cigarette

Trapped between crackled lips

She was quivering

Like a small furless dog

And her breath was raspy

Because the man

Came back for his laundry

“You can’t miss him” she
croaked

“His head bends funny”

So now I sit quietly and wait

For the man with a bent head