Susan Kelly-DeWitt: Maybe I Have No Ideas
Eating a turkey sub from the school cafeteria I suddenly think of the blonde woman whose marriage is falling apart and the dark circles under her eyes, as if two moons had lost their light there; I think of how she so unevenly layered the pickles and tomato with the pink turkey flesh and the odd way she has of wearing what she calls a "wife-beater" T-shirt, even in winter. Her fingers have left their slender depression in the bun, so in this tangential way we touch. And then it strikes me that maybe I have no ideas at all of my own, only other people's lives where they've left their imprint on my husk.
Copyright 2021 Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s books include Gravitational Tug (Main Street Rag, 2020).
