Her Hotness
- Her Hotness
While getting salmon, dill, and cheese,In the market, suddenly she's weak-kneed,And holds to a rack of peppery spices,Golden saffron, long grain rices,In her pocketed coat is a silver phone,If she needs one, it's a lifeline home.
The fever zips like a junkie's drugWhile she faces fish, and the seller's mug,"Two little fillets, please, for me."And the sweat that spills could pour a tea.Drizzling rivers roll like tearsDown the old girl's face, she's past her years.
Not a clue or caution in the social books,When the female being burns and cooks,It's a secret game of "I'm okay,Just gimme the fish and I'll go away!"A savage urge to undress right there,… To be cooling … in her underwear.
Confusion, all's forgotten, "Who …… am I, and who … the hell are you?"To her hanging cheeks and stern frown lineThe fish man's eyes turn merciful, kind."Ma'am, have a good one," says the guy.She wipes her nose with her sleeve, to dry. [End Page 116]
Suzzy Roche is a singer/songwriter/performer/writer who is a founding member of the singing group the Roches. She's recorded more than twenty CDs, written music and songs for film and TV, performed all over both with her sisters, and by herself. She has also worked and toured for years with the Wooster Group, the notorious experimental theater group. She is a writer of poems and short stories as well as songs. Her first children's book, How to Be in a Band, is due to be published by Random House in January 2013.
