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THE MIDDLE AGED NEIGHBOR LADY HAS CAUGHT ME<br />
SUNBATHING<br />
She comes over here<br />
to talk about double coupon days,<br />
like she always does,<br />
and the size of her spaniel's shit,<br />
but her eyes, this time,<br />
are on my thighs,<br />
over my ass,<br />
past the padding in the bikini bra,<br />
back to the stomach for a second look,<br />
never facing the face<br />
she knows so well<br />
from the window.<br />
She has joked<br />
with her bingo group<br />
about the dyke next door,<br />
complained about the people that come and go,<br />
loud parties, loud politics, loud red dye<br />
"all over her goddamn head, like<br />
some kind of cardinal."<br />
She pulls at the nasty elastic<br />
in her polyester peddle pushers,<br />
sets a belly jiggle free,<br />
says, "Maybe I'll get some sun<br />
today, too."<br />
-Maria Fischer<br />
26 SYLLABLES<br />
I think I was waiting<br />
for our friendship to end<br />
from the very beginning.<br />
The best of my poems are short.<br />
-Maria Fischer<br />
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