False Petals
By
John I. Blair
The flaky fragments
Of deodorant block
Float around the urinal
Like flower petals
In a finger bowl.
If I wasn’t sure
What they were,
And didn’t know
Where,
I’d caress the roses.
©2004 John I. Blair
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