25. my grandmother putting the slipper in, a surrealistic piece
it was only after my own mother had weakened me physically, by sticking the boot in, that my grandmother hovelled in from the side to stick in the mauve slipper, i looked up into her lacy cream petticoat from the gutter, i said to her 'you came in for a quickie', but then her leg got tired, or she may have pulled a muscle down there, so it was only a quick one, but that was nothing compared with the damage that her umbrella spoke did to my eardrum |