A Past Memory
Touching a red-hot stove burner will cause pain.
Therefore a not red-hot stove burner will not cause pain
my kindergartener logic assured me.
“Don’t tough it. It’s hot.”
Meddling authority figures.
How could they be wrong about something so simple?
It wasn’t long after that
that my right index finger and middle finger
were coated in salve and wrapped in gauze
and throbbing primordially.
Sometimes adults aren’t wrong.
Copyright © James Friske | Year Posted 2023
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