“Famous Last Words,” by Paul Giles
Aug 19th, 2010 | By DefenestrationSHIRT: “The first hanging is also the last.”
BED: “Tiredness: the little death.”
PILLOW: “Once bitten, twice shy.”
SHIRT: “The first hanging is also the last.”
BED: “Tiredness: the little death.”
PILLOW: “Once bitten, twice shy.”
Forget your diet. We both know why you came here.
You ogle my browned buns,
my prime-beefcake physique,
and you cannot stay away
because I’m built
Light spills into the hotel room
like ill-prepared lemonade from
the sky’s 5-cent stand, the one
all the hung-over grown-ups
have been trying to avoid.
Orlando blinks