JUST A SMUDGE
A blob, a smudge,
just a little thing
that sullies the stucco
all white and clean
above my shower's steam.
It's a stain, I mean.
Made of blood now darkened
There's a year's age on it, you see.
I stood there, lathered,
that nice day last year and spotted her..
reached my arm up languidly
and with one finger.. squished her
as she slept there.
Such a little thing to do
to become a longtime mem'ry
such as this.
Being in there now
always hauls that pleasant afternoon
right through my mean spiritedness,
to now
from way last June.
To you, mosquito, a little bow.
Little one, you live on.