Divorces
Do you remember the time at one
of your quiet restaurant lunches
when you were SURE-
I mean when your ears were just
as sure as your silversweet tongue
was sure that the soup was over salted
(because you always were
really sensitive really
tongue ears nose fingers almost
everything) and your father said
something that well wasn't, it just
wasn't well, you know-and
it was so funny you could have held
your breath for years waiting
to say something because you knew
like the soup WAS over salted
you knew he lied.
And all of the people laughed
even the brotherly foreign
maitre d'...
and then suddenly
you got scared because his eyes
didn't lie
and though you were
his beautiful well-behaved daughter
you were very, very far away and
could see.
Do you remember the time at one
of your quiet restaurant lunches
when you were SURE-
I mean when your ears were just
as sure as your silversweet tongue
was sure that the soup was over salted
(because you always were
really sensitive really
tongue ears nose fingers almost
everything) and your father said
something that well wasn't, it just
wasn't well, you know-and
it was so funny you could have held
your breath for years waiting
to say something because you knew
like the soup WAS over salted
you knew he lied.
And all of the people laughed
even the brotherly foreign
maitre d'...
and then suddenly
you got scared because his eyes
didn't lie
and though you were
his beautiful well-behaved daughter
you were very, very far away and
could see.