by Debra Marquart
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Within minutes we were in the bedroom.
I know this sounds bad.
Worse still to admit I’d said, Sure,
come on over, when the man
called to inform me I was the lucky winner
of a ten-piece set of cutlery.
So the stranger with sharp knives arrived
in a green-plaid polyester blazer
with a silver Kirby vacuum cleaner
and a suitcase full of accessories
including this clear Petri-dish attachment
lined with a cotton wafer, thin as a host,
in a green-plaid polyester blazer
with a silver Kirby vacuum cleaner
and a suitcase full of accessories
including this clear Petri-dish attachment
lined with a cotton wafer, thin as a host,