Thursday, March 20, 2025

i'm afraid to ask, but what surgery are you having?

she tells me
she'll be out of commission
for a while.
she's going
in for surgery.
she doesn't tell me what
kind of surgery it is,
but she wants
me to know
that it's surgery.
my mind runs through
the possibilities.
another face
lift, a tummy tuck.
enlargements perhaps,
or a bone in her foot.
so many possibilities,
skin, cataracts,
implants, some sort of
female issue,
perhaps a complete
transition,
taking thing off,
putting things on, as
she joins the other side.

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