Disreputable Vignette III
My mother often said people are layered
like onions
Myself, I always thought they were more like
cloves of garlic
The little ones are usually heartless
but they’re easier to crush
Disreputable Vignette IV
how tirelessly you try to make me squirm
with ribaldry
little do you know i was married once
with children
yes, it was not long ago that
i was eleven
but long enough to turn me spiteful
So
i destroyed a family today
you know them
those damned dandelions encroaching on
our pavement
into which we carved
our blossoming hate
i kicked them into the wind
as i thought of you
Angles 