Straight
No excuses, he said, no regrets. Next, in the baths
you could hear the skinny old woman washing
after she placed her three rings on the moist glass shelf
and her dentures on the cover of the bowl. Outside,
the sun was buzzing between the trees. Three birds
cawed higher up where they were flying, so we
wouldn’t notice the three men drown in the well,
those same men whose swollen bellies we pressed
with our two fingers.
Manolis Aligizakis 