I leave my fingerprints so you know where I have been.
They’re on the crystal glass door knob, impeccably formed. Snug like
Sophia Loren’s undergarments.
I left them on the glass cabinets that hold the priceless diamonds and pearls
at Tiffany’s so you know where I am when you’ve given me the mean reds.
I wanted to leave them on the Mona Lisa to evoke your memory of my
smile, but they wouldn’t let me. Instead I left them on the Eiffel tower so you
remember my fear, if you can hark back to the small things like that?
I went to that ice cream cart that sells those ridiculous ice cream
flavours. Sazzleberry…peewee…& inkleberry? You remember when we both got an
ice cream and we were standing there, all those police came out of nowhere and
raided that shop? We looked back at our ice creams and they were sliding down
our arms. I left my fingerprints there because that day we laughed away our
shadows.
I left my fingerprints on her panties so you would remember me, they
were satin pink; pretty little things. Covered in stains. On the inside and out…
The last thing I left my fingerprints on was dire, you didn’t know that as you were too busy
discovering my fingerprints on her satin panties. The pill pot was perfectly rounded;
my fingerprints felt they were where they rightly belonged. They looked most at
home there, felt most at peace. Although they knew it was right, the
fingerprints were bizarrely smudged. They looked like a ghost being sucked in
to a vacuum. On the pills there were partials, palm prints, finger prints and
imprints of my lips. Even though I’m certain they disappeared when they were
swallowed.
The last limp fingerprints would be on your hands…..with no real
feeling or conviction.
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