Roxanne
March 20, 2020
Objection to all the distractions
Emails go unanswered
And Roxanne is upset.
Oh Roxanne
There are lots of good Roxanne
Songs but did she ask for any
Of them? Imagine The Police
Writing sessions and wonder
If she had any say. Roxanne
Has a tattoo behind her ear
And fancies herself
A real writer
Who teaches for pay.
Teach me sentence structure
Roxanne, read me your
Thesis.
Go for a walk now,
Roxanne fancies herself
A real adult and hates to be
Saddled with chores in the
Family home, though she’ll
Never leave it and becomes
More and more her mother with
Each passing day.
The house is in a state of
Decay. What a lovely inheritance,
To enjoy the filth rather than say
A month traveling
Or a college fund,
For one of the kids at least,
There’s three of them.
Roxanne is bitter.
Three and that’s all there is
To it. She used to like going
On long walks on the boardwalk,
No time for such salty luxury now,
Two different dads!
And a third sleeps next to her now.
She tries to write about it
In her head in the shower
But sitting down to write with intention
Never goes well and there’s the kid’s
Lunches to make and all.
Roxanne is oh so bitter.
Roxanne used to shave everywhere
And wore lots of tight-fitting black
Clothes. She used to wear big, black sunglasses
Too, on the days her eyes were puffy
From his knuckles.
The guy now is nice to her though,
She lets him tie her up and she closes
Her eyes and thinks about how to best
Describe the feeling of being pummeled
When she sits down to write about it later,
She’ll be real sore though, and there’s
The kid’s homework and all.
One of the kids is smart and
Likes to write stories and Roxanne
Tries to get him to do more math because
She knows writing will keep him in the house forever
And Roxanne wants to be alone in the
House because then she’ll be able to
Write herself to death without all the emails coming in.
Her memoir will be self-titled.