Ear-Splitting, Liver-Bellied Bullying

plink, plink, water in the sink sinks slowly into budding suds torturing the pans and fork tines who want cascade - show on the road plink, plop, hands over ears, now stop but slowly the spatter of drops like the slow go of a rain storm keep habitating, repeating their ear-splitting, liver-bellied bullying of the spoons and cups the apron-covered giant turned off the faucet, threw in the rag, then the sponge, ew…her hands with gloves now each piece, that is us, is scrubbed and ah, true running water-rush each of us towel dried, put ‘way from nightmarish brutality we rest…we rest..until lipstick lands on the side of grinds in cup and pan slams onto surface heat in other words, we get beaten then comes water in sink, awaken the bully who sleeps eight hours look forward to vacation, hers!