three poems about two girls walking down the street together

ONE

She knew that the world rewarded logical thinking,

so she told her girlfriend that if they walked faster

they would get there sooner.

As she said it, she pointed up the hill, towards the barber shop/pharmacy.

There- is a place like cat heaven

or the unconscious act of making a peanut butter and jam sandwich.

Here- is a place where the lighting is good

or for lack of a better term:

really good.

Now that she had pointed out where there was,

her girlfriend no longer knew where they were.

And that’s when her girlfriend realized she was confused,

and suggested that maybe they should just hail a cab.

TWO

I was standing on the street corner

smelling the street,

and I smelt water.

(The way it looks like it smells

not how it actually does.)

And I started listening to this girl who thought it was a good technique to 'talk these kind of things out loud rather than just in your head.'

I listened to her talk to her girlfriend about a boy she was seeing

who in response to her explaining that she was trying her best to study for her sociology mid term

said,

‘studying is cool like pissing on chicks who are drunker than you.’

She was debating whether she should break it off with him or not.

I barged into the conversation

apologizing,

and then I said that it was interesting

because piss smells like piss, and its different than water that way.

And then I smiled,

and I know that she saw some of my teeth

and the way my eyes get

when I really mean it.

THREE

Two girls walked behind one another

with about three sidewalk squares in between them.

The sidewalk was very icy

as the property owner had been neglecting his obligation

to chip away the ice.

The girl who was walking three sidewalk squares behind the girl who was walking three side walk squares in front

had her headphones in

and as her music started to get climactic,

she slipped on the ice and fell backward.

The girl in front of her continued walking,

her reasons remain unknown.

‘It was lucky that the girl behind the girl walking in front

was wearing a heavily loaded back pack,

or else she might have hurt her head

quite badly.’

The property owner said to his wife.

He was watching the girls from his living room window and

she was using the pay phone on the other side of the street.

They had no idea they were holding their separate phones in opposite ears.

‘No kidding’ She replied as she turned around to see what her husband

was actually talking about.