Tubes
"We are tubes." She says.
I think of fish
who are a basic model
for our tubular forms,
how they swim
gulping themselves up
as they move forward.
Most don't talk of their bodies
as cylindrical,
as passageways.
I look at her
sucking a milkshake
up through a straw.
I love her tubes.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2019
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