Friday, July 19, 2024

Just a puppet after all May 10, 2012

 

like Pinocchio, I like to think

 no strings control me,

yet each time my cell phone rings

I jump, do whatever I am supposed to do,

expected to do, even when I'm scared to do it,

like the messages she texted me

to meet her for some grand opening,

 when I assumed she doesn't want

to see any more of me,

my whole body jerking

with the expectation that she does,

 and I go even though I'm all the way home,

 and park so many blocks away

 I could have walked, getting there

to find she is surprised to see me,

 telling me she thought

she was texting somebody else,

me, sagging don in a corner

like an unused puppet,

desperate to have her fingers pluck

 at my string to stir me to life again.

 


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