The Sick Gazelle

[tectak]

Her eyes were transfixed
on the drink I had just bought her;
swollen and red and separate
from the rest of the world.
 
She said her boyfriend had just moved to Italy
and that she had offered to go with him.
 
I told her she was pretty
and deserved better.

Hi Wj,
Yes to this. It is clean. It is precise. It is haunting. It is thought provoking. It is not poetry.
It just is...but is is enough?
Best
tectak