Importances
If a splinter in the thumb
can make you screw up your eyes
and twist your mouth
and mutter ‘arrgh!’
under your breath
imagine shrapnel
in your leg, or worse.
Patting the hospital bed
where your leg used to be.
Talking sweet nothings
to something gone.
And here’s another thing.
The girl on her way out
to a dance, or dinner a deux,
or night out with the girls. The scream
when a fingernail breaks off.
.
Great! Do you need ‘And here’s another thing’?
like the shock at the end – delivering a shock with something that is not shocking – worked for me Robbie