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Sunday blues

Sundays are 
rough 
enough, 
this one 
worse than 
most… 
I have been 
armed 
with a snow 
shovel and charged 
with holding back 
a hurricane… 

As cherry 
upon whipped misery, 
the door bell rings, 
she’s dropping 
off medicine 
for the cat, 
decked in 
Sunday finery, 
down another 
twenty pounds, 
admits to 
over indulging 
in the fancy country 
club Sunday brunch. 

I stand in stained 
shorts, 
my shirt with 
more holes than 
viable cloth, 
my hair standing 
straight in every 
direction, 
my toenails 
unclipped for 
weeks, 
my 
stomach 
churning away at 
a McBreakfast 
combination. 

She gives me 
the old up one side 
down the other 
eye summation 
and knows everything. 

She smiles, 
“Nice hairdo. 
Leave the 
house much?”