Orange iced tea

afternoon (tea)

it looked like he had a tumor on the
left side of his cheek but it was really
his half-sized face chewing on the

bedspread pale yellow like the walls
and chicken salad on white china served
cold with orange iced tea one shelf

took up most of the wall with bath
salts and dishes the watch I bought
cost 20,000 yen and I wear it every

day it was quiet, just Quinn and I
folding knees under too-short tables
making sure the skirt was tucked in

under the chair crossed legs and kitten
heels and matching Louis Vuitton
bags (though some of them were paper,
and Tiffany) the tumor was the time it

takes to run to the train
and back.