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KYSO Flash ™
Knock-Your-Socks-Off Art and Literature
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No Netflixby Dan GilmoreShe: Did a Netflix come? He: Not today. She: What’s coming next? He: Elegy. It’s the story of a man in love with a woman’s breasts. She has to have a double mastectomy. She: I read where a seventy-year-old woman in India had twins. He: The baseball game’s rained out. She: I mean how many eggs can one woman have, anyway? He: Second day in a row. Now they’ll have to have two double headers. She: I read that brown eggs aren’t any healthier than white ones. He: Puts a lot of strain on the pitching staff. She: Breasts? He: Yeah, double header. She: No, I mean the name of the next Netflix? He: Elegy. She: This is good. He: What? She: I don’t know. Just, you know, talking like this. No Netflix. He: We’re not cancelling Netflix. She: This is nice though. He: What? She: Talking like this. He: Want another? She: Sure. He: Gin or Vodka? She: Gin, a double.... When does that breast one come? He: Tomorrow maybe. But there’s a double header.
clusters of wet leaves —Adapted from “No Netflix,” which appears in Gilmore’s collection of lineated poems Love Takes a Bow (Imago Press, 2010) |
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