The Zipper Girl with Mud on Her Legs
	Deepsouth v.4 n.2 (Spring 1998)
Copyright (c) 1999 by Alysson Parker	Alysson Parker
	All rights reserved.

            (She is a biography of me.)

            Mini-skirt and grey tights
            the picture of
            non-old-ladyish...

            but it had to rain
            and as she walked in
            her Brazilian shoes
            to join the queue
            of business machines,
            spatters.

            The good solution
            was just to peel out slow
            wear her zipper love
            like a keychain

            because she gets paid
            a nice book price

            and mud dries to dust
            but raindrops stain.

            (She was late.)
            After all.