MY PICTURE FROM YOUR REFRIGERATOR DOOR
Dropped your key in the mailbox addressed to you,
Seems I won’t be needin’ it no more.
There’s nothing for you to say, or do,
‘Cept take my picture off your refrigerator door.
Take my picture off that door
It’s hung there now for a year or more
Behind a magnet with a piggy shape,
You’d never use anything so permanent as tape.
All our good times will slip into family lore,
After you take my picture from your refrigerator door.
Seems like ever-thing just kinda turned to shit.
I was a cad, you said, insensitive and a bore.
You hate my cookin’ and the ways I use lie and sit.
You’re grossed-out by dust bunnies skitterin’ cross my floor.
Ya cain’t stand the way I dress and comb my hair,
You want to make love fast, while I like to be slower,
Since its clear we’re nowhere near the perfectly matched pair,
You will take my picture off your refrigerator door.
Hope and pray you’ll handle this okay.
Please don’t get no idea that I’m sore.
We’ll be alright, we’ll enjoy a brand-new day,
After you take my picture from your refrigerator door.
I havta admit to some prurient curiosity.
What will happen in a month or more.
I’m just dying to know, I cain’t wait to see,
Who’ll take my place on your refrigerator door.
by Doran G. Williams
Cenizo
Fourth Quarter 2018
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