This Week Has Been Stressful Also, But Improving: Another Poem

Bit-at

Bloody twice today,
for the most inane, innocuous reasons.
No barroom brawl;
I had to talk the possibility away,
I’m too old, too much of a lady.

Unusual shoes, literally dusted off
in a foolish, frivolous decision,
early spring.
Another pair of white fishnets ruined
with a bit-at heel.

A well-crafted crapshoot,
Either breezily simple
Or impossibly apart,
like the task of getting ahold
of a band-aid in a hospital.

Maybe this will end up being
as easy as something else-
something I haven’t even named yet.