Safari

I take off my Robot

When he comes around.

I pinch pimples in the mirror

And tell him the medicine

For my bad days isn’t working anymore.

He doesn’t know what to think of his new girlfriend

So he took her on a Safari.

He knows I had vodka but I tell him

I’m sober so we can argue again.

He is my favorite and I do not worry about the long black hairs behind my knees

Or the dimples in my thighs.

He shakes his head when I suggest he read my Junk emails aloud, but he does it anyway.

He sweats through the sheets all night

And I wash my vagina before he wakes up.

I dig my Robot out of the sheets

And he goes back to Safari.

C. Cimmone is a North American author and comic, specializing in blue and observational comedy, short fiction, and narrative nonfiction. Cimmone serves as a contributing author for Arouse Magazine and editor-at-large for Trampset. She also serves as a reader for Marias at Sampaguitas. Her prose is featured in a menagerie of literary journals.