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Christine Brandel

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She's Turning it Around

     She’s only got two eyes and she’s already eaten four of them. There isn’t quite as much to go around anymore, that’s the law of nature, so she’s got to give more sparingly.

     So from now on, there’s a prerequisite. She hates to be so diplomatic about it but. the first requirement: taking the quiz. If he can’t be that flexible, well, there’s your answer. The second requirement is that a noise has to come out when he cries. He has to look into her two yes, cry and make a noise. Men who cry silently are prone to lying silently as well. Finally he has to be able to read a poem, if only to read the poem that’s hidden in the curve of her breast. If he can’t see that poem, he can’t come in.

     It’s not that she doesn’t recognize her own responsibility as well. She’ll have to do some changing. She can’t be eating eyes at the drop of a hat. She’s going to keep from picking up the phone. She’s going to have to stop looking at others. She’s going to have to eat her hair.

 

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