Lukewarm, by Terri Metcalfe

Lukewarm

I’ll forget you just like I forgot all the others.
It doesn’t matter that you’re hot
with the scent of youth, distant

as a phantom smell.
You’ll be lukewarm like lavender on an old hankie
once these stinking thieves of my attention
have faded to memories.

You’re no different.
Won’t slide past my respiratory passages any easier –
my insides stained rotten as a neglected toilet bowl.

Look, any minute now I’ll excite your molecules
back to life, so quit staring at me.
I offer the metallic tinged ting of the microwave,
or I can easily scald a new teabag.
 

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