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Sarah With Lobsters in the Bathtub
by Marge Simon
Party time in her high rise, Sarah’s lobsters in the bathtub for the celebration. Someone will be tossing them in the pot after she rinses off the bubble bath, but Sarah always forgets what time it is and what’s on the stove when we pass the pipe around.
Sarah’s friend with long clean hair is there to play the Irish flute. Puts us in the mood to groove… I guess that’s right, whether it happens or not, Sarah doles out mescalitos and everyone sees her art more clearly when gently taken by her hand to hear her liquid voice describe her two-dimensional visions
of a marshmallow universe dotted with purple stars bubbly smiles and happy faces; Sarah uses templates for just about everything except toilet paper collage.
Whatever said isn’t going very far and won’t be remembered in our mush-muddled brains so who cares when Sarah leans out to sea on the ledge over an ocean of traffic. She thinks she’s a goddamned Super Goddess, but about then the flute dies, the smoke alarm goes off and the lobsters are burning when she jumps confirming she is yet another of the unsolved mysteries of the universe.
End of the world, party over just like that.
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Fiction © Copyright Marge Simon
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
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