V. G. Lee
Wife number three
In particular the twins, her ‘sweet boys’ with
their soft, brown dog eyes - I watched.
I watched them in the showers once, where to all
intents and purposes we were just three grown men
doing the necessary, only I was storing information.
A visual impression of their minute weapons,
peeping timidly out of rough thickets; both of them
hardly bigger than a tomcat’s boast. I could have,
I should have castrated the pair with a sharp
click, click of my brand new dentures.
“Something for r’onny to suck on later,”
dreams Doreen, our whey faced wanderer,
asleep beneath a heap of stale bedding, the end
of an unlit fag softening in her mouth, and
without the wherewithal to light it.
Within a season she and her sons,
the epiphytal ones, burgeoned, then bloomed;
as healthy a trio of Orchid Cacti- pretty
pink petals and thick fleshy leaves straining
merrily towards warmth and hot water.
While I, the egocentric; with only one real trick
agreed, but several useful sleights of hand and a talent
for drawing pictures with a match in spilt gin - that
could have been, that should have been enough to carry
me forward to my apple orchard years - rotted.
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