Reid Hepworth

On Second Thought

Being egged as I stagger home from a night of slam dancing at The Smiling Buddha is the icing on the cake when I realize I’ve lost my keys and can’t go home so instead do an about-face to my ex’s house only to have her roll her eyes and declare I smell like a brewery gone rancid and this no-way no-how is a booty call when all I want to do is sleep the sleep of the dead but I know she still has a thing for me so I say nothing cuz I know which side my bread is buttered on.

regrets   I've had a few too many

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About the Author

Reid Hepworth is a Pushcart Prize– and Touchstone–nominated poet whose haibun, tanka and related forms have been published in journals and anthologies internationally. She is a former associate editor at haikuKATHA and currently resides in wilds of Georgian Bay, Ontario, where she enjoys spending her time listening to the trees, talking to birds, and eating pastries.

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