Ice Cubes From a Crow

Happy Stepmother's Day
Sorry your card is soggy.
I tucked a few ice cubes inside it.
The same ones you spit onto my soul
so many years ago.

{They all see the gentle-gray-haired grandma
and wonder why I keep my distance}.
But I grew up under the ass of that crow {you didn't}
Crapping out ice cubes on my young soul-
I wear the rouge on my psyche as proof.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Pigeon Tart Avatar
May 5, 2019 at 8:40 AM
Ooh sharp ink! Y'ouch! Great read ;) xomo
Krutsinger Avatar
May 5, 2019 at 6:27 AM
Oh you have so burned the crow with ice cubes! Well done my friend! Well done indeed! I hope she feels the ice; and I hope she pays for it with her sneering, sneaky secretive newly created persona of supposed niceness. I imagine her crowlike self is still in there, being mean in all of her beaky ways.
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