The Opium Den
My feet were up, uncomfortable in thick-soled winter bootsWhile the sedative coursed through my nerve endings.I remembered firmer feet in high-heeled summer shoes,Clicking in time to an inner pulse.A breeze over the Fox River falls cooled the back of my neck.My bra was tight, my white nurses uniform snug against my slim ribcage.Seventeen, heading for a Saturday job as a dental assistant,I might have warranted the remark of my married sister’s admirer,“Ravishing,” he said, as I sashayed by. And I probably thoughtThe hunger for loving ravishment mine to control.But breathing the nitrate can’t erase the fact I amSeventy plus, looking forward to my first firm biteAfter receiving four front and shiny new teeth implants.
Published on November 19, 2013 03:00