In the Store

             His belly hangs from the bottom of a shirt shrunken in disgust of a skin swollen with the smell of thirst. While thin long hairs, rudely erected, like whiskers of a cockroach cowardly hiding from light behind a toilet seat.

Stupidity

He told her, " I'll love you until the day I die."

He then wrapped his arms around her like a sheet lays on furniture to keep away unwanted dust in a deserted home, and fell asleep.

As the day dawned, she sorrowfully picked up the pieces of her disappointment, packed a suitcase of shattered memories, and walked away like the tears of emptiness..

For she is a Woman who can't be with a man whose love has limits.