Yellow Mama E zine

One Time, Jordan Said He Loved Me

 

by Francine Witte

 

        but time is a man-made construct, which is what Jordan says about love, that it was invented by the greeting card companies who divide time into holidays and have us sniffing the air for holly each December, licking our lips for chocolate each Valentine’s Day and when Jordan left this time he said our timings don’t match, his and mine and how he’d match better with stupid Arlene whose face is round and clocklike if you really want to know, what with her eyes all 2 and 10, her mouth hanging low in a squashy 6 and I’m sure she has promised Jordan extra ticks to every minute, more pizzazz to every second, and all Jordan has to do is give her all his time and love, if, in fact, that is even a thing.

 

 

 

Francine Witte is a flash fiction writer and poet, and the author of the flash collection RADIO WATER. Her newest poetry book, Some Distant Pin of Light, has just been published by Cervena Barva Press. Her work has been widely published, and she is a recent recipient of a Pushcart Prize. She lives in New York City. Please visit her website francinewitte.com. She can be found on social media @francinewitte.

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Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various venues in Manhattan, including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received. She is the Assistant Art Director for Yellow Mama.