Eloise Zeeman

Do You Really Want To Know?

I first saw it sticking out of his back pocket, just the edges of it. He got up from pizza when we heard a drip... I was watching him look under the sink for a leak, appreciating one round cheek under his worn out, pink showing through string-bare butt jeans- then noting the other side was dense,flat and hanging low. Not a wallet, I clocked it. And after that, each time I looked, it was always in there.