1.
Plumpness of person; stoutness.
flames licking at its bottom,
incessant, contained, flickering.
Bubbling can be heard, a low
whine that will soon turn to screaming -
a low, round mug waits,
set on the countertop,
A man waits with it, watches
from a stool, his butt careening
off the sides, spilling even,
He waits, head on hand, wrist to elbow,
bone angling into the flesh above his wide knee, he watches
the pot get hotter.
There is an ache in his throat that grows,
crawls with fits of coughing and cackling
hacking sounds that he has come to keeping down
With jaws shut and honey in a cup that waits
with the man, staring as the steam jumps and shoots
toward the low ceiling -
The legs of the stool snap.
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