@Morganna: I think you've summed things up very nicely in just four lines! For me the first line is the key to the whole poem and leads into the rest perfectly.
@Marc: hah, I knew you were sneaking in a secret theme week :-p
For today then, since it's a bad romance, it was a choice between Lady Believer and Aubergine, and I found Aubergine's tale first.
A bad romance If this was a bad romance novel, thought Aubergine as she scrolled through Wikipedia pages, I'd take Adrian home and nurse him better and my tender kisses would mend his broken bones. She reached a Wikipedia subheading of Sepsis and Gangrene just as Adrian looked over her shoulder. "You're looking up children's names?" he said, sounding surprised. She lifted her head, half-horrified, half-bemused, and he grinned at her, his steel-coloured teeth seeming to glow faintly in the fluorescent convenience store lighting. "You're such a goose," she said, and then wondered why she'd chosen that word. She hated waterfowl of all kinds and would order them from menus just to know that there was one less in the world. "I think not taking you to hospital would be a really bad idea, Ade. Look at all the things that Wikipedia says might drop off!" "You can't trust Wikipedia," he said. He grinned again. "I don't know why, but it's what everyone says." "Who's everyone?" "Well, Richard for one." She thumbed her phone off with more force than she'd intended. Richard, Adrian's best friend and a terrible influence. It had been Richard's idea for Adrian to give her a Teasmaid for her birthday, and Richard's suggestion that they go to Farmer McDonald's Duck Sanctuary for their anniversary. The man -- no, the child! -- was a plague in Adrian's life and a rust on hers. "He's got a girlfriend now, you know?" He sounded hopeful, but all she could do was wonder if he'd kidnapped the poor woman. "They're getting married in June." Drugs. He must be drugging her. "You're grinding your teeth, Aube. I don't know how, but you make it erotic." She sighed. Why was so it hard to stay angry with this idiot? "Hospital," she said firmly. "I'd like to keep you all in one piece. I'll call for an Uber." He smiled again, reminding her for a moment of a James Bond villain. "I'll pay for the beer," he said. "No point having the whole evening go to waste." She let her head fall against his chest, once again noting the feel of heavy jewelry under his shirt. "We can go back to mine after, if you want," he said. "I'm not far from the hospital these days." She started dialling for an Uber, while outside a woman's voice rose above the gentle hubbub of the street, demanding to know why a four-year-old had a gun.
Morganna - yup, that sums up a bad romance quite nicely :)
Greg - ah, I'm glad you went with Aubergine and her tale, as I'm always happy to see it continue. The bit about her feelings for waterfowl was especially excellent :)
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Needy and clingy
He calls her day and night
She tells him to get lost, find another girl,
But he longs for the unobtainable.
@Morganna: I think you've summed things up very nicely in just four lines! For me the first line is the key to the whole poem and leads into the rest perfectly.
@Marc: hah, I knew you were sneaking in a secret theme week :-p
For today then, since it's a bad romance, it was a choice between Lady Believer and Aubergine, and I found Aubergine's tale first.
A bad romance
If this was a bad romance novel, thought Aubergine as she scrolled through Wikipedia pages, I'd take Adrian home and nurse him better and my tender kisses would mend his broken bones. She reached a Wikipedia subheading of Sepsis and Gangrene just as Adrian looked over her shoulder.
"You're looking up children's names?" he said, sounding surprised. She lifted her head, half-horrified, half-bemused, and he grinned at her, his steel-coloured teeth seeming to glow faintly in the fluorescent convenience store lighting.
"You're such a goose," she said, and then wondered why she'd chosen that word. She hated waterfowl of all kinds and would order them from menus just to know that there was one less in the world. "I think not taking you to hospital would be a really bad idea, Ade. Look at all the things that Wikipedia says might drop off!"
"You can't trust Wikipedia," he said. He grinned again. "I don't know why, but it's what everyone says."
"Who's everyone?"
"Well, Richard for one."
She thumbed her phone off with more force than she'd intended. Richard, Adrian's best friend and a terrible influence. It had been Richard's idea for Adrian to give her a Teasmaid for her birthday, and Richard's suggestion that they go to Farmer McDonald's Duck Sanctuary for their anniversary. The man -- no, the child! -- was a plague in Adrian's life and a rust on hers.
"He's got a girlfriend now, you know?"
He sounded hopeful, but all she could do was wonder if he'd kidnapped the poor woman.
"They're getting married in June."
Drugs. He must be drugging her.
"You're grinding your teeth, Aube. I don't know how, but you make it erotic."
She sighed. Why was so it hard to stay angry with this idiot?
"Hospital," she said firmly. "I'd like to keep you all in one piece. I'll call for an Uber."
He smiled again, reminding her for a moment of a James Bond villain. "I'll pay for the beer," he said. "No point having the whole evening go to waste."
She let her head fall against his chest, once again noting the feel of heavy jewelry under his shirt. "We can go back to mine after, if you want," he said. "I'm not far from the hospital these days."
She started dialling for an Uber, while outside a woman's voice rose above the gentle hubbub of the street, demanding to know why a four-year-old had a gun.
Morganna - yup, that sums up a bad romance quite nicely :)
Greg - ah, I'm glad you went with Aubergine and her tale, as I'm always happy to see it continue. The bit about her feelings for waterfowl was especially excellent :)
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