Doing the Worm

Leathery Long Island ladies riding trains or saddled tyrannosaurus'
Or giving each other furniture
Or changing their own spare tires
Or having their nails done in deep burgundy

Not doing the worm anymore
But living in a story
About wedding days and whatever it needs to be

To make a story warm
We mostly live like this
Talking about divorce and how smart doctors are
And how they can't turn on the stove
And taking care of adult boys
And sometimes marrying them

Carrying them into narrow basements
To fix furnaces and move sofas
Later that day we'll drink more coffee
And braid friendship leashes
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12.23.11

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