WHAT THE NOVEL SHOULD'VE BEEN ABOUT by Dan Flore III

I saw this book in the thrift store

it was called The wine of solitude

or something like that

I was hoping it was about

a very sexual woman

drinking wine all day

in her big house

by herself

in a dress

she'd been wearing for three days

barefoot and doing nothing

but the novel was really about

some war and some family going through it

like all novels are

I really wish it was about her throwing

wine bottles at stray dogs

smoking cigarettes

and watching her beautiful neighbor's

butt jiggle as she adjusted the wedgie

in her bikini bottom entering the pool next door

then getting really pissed at the neighbor

for sleeping with her ex-husband

even though she was never married

she'd suck on peeled bananas

then smash and smear them all over her face

like she just got a facial from some fantasy cowboy

and she'd be wasting her life

just to waste it

then the reader would think

something was going to happen

apart from her boredom

when she decides she will find

someone and become their concubine

but the great thing is this never happens

she just walks around the house

drinking wine and thinking things up like

washing her dirty feet in the bathtub

and rewarding herself for doing it

with masturbating

but she never bothers

she just decays and decays away

which is something I could've

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Dan Flore III’s poems have appeared in many publications. His fifth poetry book is Written in the dust on the ceiling fan, published by Dead Man’s Press