Adele Evershed
Hashtag
He sees you—a pretty thing tied with ribbons in the typing pool,
and dictates to you in poetry.......
It is that capital letter-feeling of LOVE!
It makes your 'qwerty' heart beat-a hundred words per minute.
His well-practiced spiel spools out—unhappy; lonely; misunderstood:
(short hand for, "Sleep with me")
Maybe he tries to persuade you that he is bbbbroken & only you can
fix him!
Or perhaps he tells you his marriage is just a typo!
But his words have shuttled—back and forth—before.
Your inky fingers might smudge his work-shirts,
but he will always return home to be washed and starched.
So you will be let go.
A princess released from her spell—
with no references to remind you
(& sadly the only weight the hash-tag had then was its meaning).
Bio
Adele Evershed was born in Wales. Her prose and poetry have been published in over a hundred journals and anthologies. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net for poetry. Finishing Line Press will publish Adele's first poetry chapbook, Turbulence in Small Places, in July 2023. Her Novella-in-Flash, Wannabe, will be published by Alien Buddha Press in May 2023. Find her on Twitter @AdLibby1 or on her website, thelithag.com.