Tuesday Poem: If Looks Could Kill

If Looks Could Kill



When the woman gave me a look

back over her shoulder

I went and crossed the road



it was dark and poorly lit

I didn't want to scare her

and I didn't mean any harm



well, none of us do,

but we're clumsy

we break things and people



that's the way it is

that's the fact of the matter

look, we were made that way



and the most they do is look

but they'd have done with us long since

if looks could kill.



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