Amazing Oysters on the Half Shell

Sis: This one is for you
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Oysters on the half shell
Screaming, vulnerable oysters
Tempting, regal
Sliding down velvet throats
Sensation of unmolested bodies
Flesh discovering flesh

How easy they go down

deep down....

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Oysters are alive when they are eaten
Violently hacked from their shells
Screaming vulnerable oysters
Tilting toward darkness
Sensation of unmolested bodies
Sliding down, deep down, into terrifying abyss

How easy they go down
deep down....

Amazing

Trees

Trees
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Sunday night

Dinner with family and laundry collection

Why is dad asleep by five pm?

“Your father is depressed” my mother barks.

Why does my mother look so defeated? Where has her upper lip gone ? Tell gravity to stop tugging on her brilliant skin.

“You’re too critical,” she informs me.

Why is the dog so fat that she looks like a beach ball?

“Your father is depressed,” she replies.

What is my mother doing in my childhood bedroom surrounded by empty bud light bottles?

“It’s a grand room” she reveals. “I can hear the birds and see the trees from the window.”

"I like trees."

"I think you like Bud light better. "

“You’re too critical,” she informs me.

I glance out the window.

She is right

The trees are quite nice.
I must have enjoyed this room in childhood