<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417396" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Arrivederci Lipstick</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'After careful study and due deliberation it is my opinion the head remains conscious for one minute and a half after decapitation.'<br> -Dr. Dassy d'Estaing,1883</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The ax whistled down, my head<br>tumbled off, twirled through the air, landed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">between my wife’s ankles. I looked up<br>her skirt: one last glimpse at those alabaster</div><div style="margin:10px 0">chimneys. What good will the word “thigh” do me <br>where I’m going, I wondered, as I stared </div><div style="margin:10px 0">at the red door of her panties, the brass knocker<br>that I installed one rainy morning</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when we were young and in love. Good-bye<br>little red door I used to walk through</div><div style="margin:10px 0">after a long day at the office and say, “honey, <br>I’m homeopathic.” I wanted to apply </div><div style="margin:10px 0">arrivederci lipstick, plant one last kiss <br>on the soil, hope it bloomed into something</div><div style="margin:10px 0">useful, then Janey snatched me up by the hair, <br>yelling “the putty’s not so silly anymore, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">is it, mister marmalade? ” The last thing<br>I remember: being punted high through the air, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a squirrel squinting on a tree trunk, <br>the house getting smaller, a blue bird</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jeffrey+McDaniel">Jeffrey McDaniel</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=417396" data-title="Arrivederci Lipstick de Jeffrey McDaniel" data-description="'After careful study and due deliberation it is my opinion the head remains conscious for one minute and a half after decapitation.' -Dr. Dassy d'Estaing,1883 The ax whistled down, my head tumbled off, twirled through the air, landed betw..."></div> </div> </div>

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