Saturday, October 14, 2023

don't use up the hot water

we used
to line up in the short
hallway
of the row house.
toothbrush in hand
waiting to get into the one
bathroom
that the seven
of us shared.
don't use all the hot
water
we'd say
to the locked door,
banging on it,
a sister
or two in there
mysteriously doing
all the things girls
do to prepare.

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