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My brother proposed marriage to her because love is truly blind. Her decision to accept was based on opportunism rather than emotion. My decision was more territorial than anything else; my brother intends to move her into the home we’ve shared since mother and father died. Granted is practically the size of a palace with it’s 22 rooms, but it’s not big enough for two queens.
Brother thinks he will be the unifier than forms us into a happy little family. No such luck darling baby brother. I love you, but there’s not enough love in the world to make me accept this.
So now just a sprinkle of this powder will take care of everything.
“Tea time darlings.”
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She sat at the table staring at the salt in the shaker, while beating a steady tattoo on the tabletop with her knife.
The private nurse sat quietly next to her. An Easter Island statue in comfy shoes. There was a tiny stain on her white uniform top. It must have been the cranberry juice at lunch.
Lunch took two hours. She did 12 bites in all, and her pants felt tight from it. They were 45 minutes into this meal, and four forkfuls had already gone down. One forkful from each of the items on the plate. It had to be that way, otherwise the sweats would come and soon after the shakes. So much responsibility to keeping the order.
Each day she would find an orderly word in the dictionary, and write it and it’s definition neatly on a blue lined journal page. Today the word was symmetric; she thought it a lovely word.
The clock ticked loudly. The nurse tapped the table to get her attention.
“The food is getting cold shall I pop it in the microwave.”
“No”
The knife was placed next to the plate carefully.
“Why do you all think I need reassembly in a world that’s falling apart?”
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Iodine
Aliment
Toy
Dynamo
Vendor
no imaginary ailment is a heart broken
bandages, iodine, none of that helps
no vendor hawks replacements
a former dynamo lies in a crushed heap
a toy left out on the lawn in the rain
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