HATCHBACKS THIRD ANNIVERSARY GUEST BLOG - A BUX JUST-BUX TRIPTYCH

By Bux Just-Bux - 

1. Soliloquy

I never did

adjust

to being

just

a

friend

having to employ new

techniques

just to connect

like ducking and weaving

the salacious topics

that flowed freely between us

before

trapping fully formed

sentences

behind pursed lips

and swallowing back

the bitter taste of sharp words

in one go

I don't recognise

your new version of me

the one unable to win you over

with a curved hip

or this soliloquy

PICTURE FROM WWW.AFRICAPUBLIC.COM 'HOMAGE TO MY HIPS' BY LUCILLE CLIFTON 

2. Target Audience 

I should have just told you how I felt
spelled it out
in plain text
instead of
encrypting desire
in
subliminal poetic prose
close to the bone
but miles off the mark

PICTURE FROM ITTVAGYUNK.BLOG.HU

3. Party Line 

I miss the days of beer mat dating
autographing your number freely
on compressed cardboard
in rancid little pubs
flipping it to one of the weekend lads
anxious to hook up
with a girl in stiletto heels
coasting carpets
matted with mixers

You'd wait for him to get in touch
from a change fed phone box
preferably the next day
the next week
(or the next time he was wasted)
to ask if you remembered him
as he traced smiley faces
on condensation choked windows
handset trapped
between jaw and shoulder
with phone cord spring loaded
round his wedding ring finger

But the only thing that rang
was the echo of rejection
the tin can connection
of Cantor's theorem
calling collect

SHOE CORCKSCREW FROM CAFEPRESS.COM

GEORG CANTOR FROM NEW.MATH.UIUC.EDU

by Bux Just-Bux;

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