Milady, My Malady
Author’s Note
I wrote this in Nov. 2013 after a breakup. At the time, it was therapeutic and not intended for public consumption. Now though? It’s a bittersweet time capsule.
A list poem in memory of a failed relationship
- Mario band-aids
- Borrowed scissors
- Bedside visitations
- A friendship of convenience
- “Sketchball” and “coquettish”
- Weird Al’s sauerkraut
- Conversations over coffee
- Constant, continuous
- Alliteration
- Salsa
- Zombies
- “…for science”
- Jolly Ranchers
- Contact lenses
- Extreme coupons
- Batman versus Superman
- Spicy Thai food on February 14
- Locked doors and casual vandalism
- Steam Powered Giraffe’s “Honeybee”
- “Never pay for gluten; it should always be free.”
- In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.
- Walking the pavement beside the shore
- What the Pho?
- The Tandem
- Tiger tattoo
- Eggs over easy
- Breakfast for dinner
- A back like Daniel Craig’s
- A scoundrel and a handsome devil
- Space, the final frontier
- Monopolized Sundays
- Bubble tea
- Bingo dauber
- Low iron levels
- “Two lips” for tulips
- Two kisses on the cheek
- Snow cones and funnel cake
- Vitamin C deficiency
- Fairest of two fairs
- My little peanut
- “Young-ish.”
- Edmonds sunset
- Country Village after dark
- Free-range, feral chickens
- Dancing without music in the rain
- Middle name guessing game
- Bennie and the Jets
- She gets my printer
