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
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poem by Yvette Smith
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