Forgetting YOU
Forgetting you, was not easy
It kept me up all night
And I was trying to write a list
Of easy to forget things
Your nose was too big to forget
It often got stuck in the door
Or got mistaken for a clothes hook
Your eyes were the size of two small currants
Your face as white and as plump as a bun
Your lips slid sideways like a slit in paper
Your tongue flicked in and out
Like a lizard catching flies
Your nostrils were wider than blackwall tunnel
Your hair was a jungle of infestations
Your voice a hoarse monotone revealation
Your footsteps, two hooves in the hall way
Your belly the size of a large buddhas
Jelly baby
The sound of your whistle was unmistakeable
Your walk was hindered by big fat feminine hips
Your knee caps were two small castanets clapping in the wind
Your armpits carried the aroma of middle eastern promise
And last weeks dirty washing
Your diet was full of garlics and chillies and unbearable heat
The sound of your digestion was like the first rumblings of a volcano
Your flatulence peeled wall paper emptied a room without forewarning
Your breath was a deadly concoction of mildew and kittens breath
Your teeth were bright yellow tombstones crumbling at the edges
Your eyebrows two furry caterpillars dancing the rumba
Your feet two wet flat fish sprawled on the pavement
Your elbows two small hinges that squeaked on bending
Your arms unmentionable sticks attached to your shoulders
Your chest a bush of riotous hairyness
Your ears two small fans sprouting from under your cap
Which was flat and black
Your calfs were track marks full of pulsating blue veins
Your shoes glittery strap ons or sling back sandals
These were particularly hard to forget
infact because it was so hard to forget you
I decided to leave you
Out of the blue
Without warning
One morning
Before you had washed
Or flossed your teeth
Or opened your black currant eyes
I left in disguise
Intent on forgetting myself
By pretending to be you
For a while
Until I forgot myself
And then in time
Forgot you
(Except for your taste in'sling back ' shoes)
poem by Yvette Smith
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