Short Affronted Poems

Sweet sticky moment
Nectar flow, golden honey
Irresistible
One demented honey bee
Affronted at blatant theft....

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Shooting the Satan's children is an easy, injudicious death, brother!                     Drag them to the town,                           And let the affronted crowd stone them to death....

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CEO Andrew Sykes took a social crash dive
he asked a clerk when her baby would arrive.
"I'm not pregnant!" she exclaimed
her face was red and inflamed.
'Tis a miracle he fled her presence alive....

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He mentioned that she was beautiful.
He touched her
needing a tactile communion.

She pulled away affronted.

He wrote a poem about the incident
that later was used
as evidence against him....

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Her laugh was a sharp sound. 
It made you wonder whether she was amused or if her throat was simply incapable of making any other sound. 
It suited the heavy look in her eyes, the straightness of her spine. 
When she laughed, everyone within the room paused, at once enraptured and affronted. 
The curve of her lips gave nothing away but danger....

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He mentioned that she was beautiful.
He mentioned, perhaps too eagerly,
that she was kissable.

He touched her
(as he would a sculpture)
needing a tactile communion.
He simply wanted to curve
where she curved,
to hold lightly the blessing.

She pulled away affronted.
She phoned her attorney.
She threatened harassment.

He stood back still admiring her,
wishing only that life
were a more perfect mimic
of art....

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