Midnight Phone

Every family has one.

 

Midnight Telephone

 

Barely awake I could hear her

shouting at me that he had again

wronged her, hitting her upside the head

with a frying pan this time—like a cartoon.

 

The image played out with

Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner in the desert

instead of Connie and John

in their two bedroom trailer.

 

“God damn b*****d knocked my false teeth out

and broke ‘em to pieces.” Her harsh half-yell, half bark

forced me to open my eyes to my dark apartment

and not the cheerfully painted desert.

 

I could hear myself asking her what she was

going to do,

where she was planning to go,

and silently praying to every god I knew it wasn’t my house.

 

“I’m gluin' my damn teeth back together.

What'd you think I was gonna do?”

Reviews

[Kelly Scheppers]

Lol, very funny lines here, Kristi! Good job!