JEFFREY ZABLE

DATE NIGHT

Yes, it’s date night and I’m going out with an ant that I met
on my kitchen table.

Heading to The Bread Crumb Club, and while there we’ll drink
some sugared water and dance to some of the oldies like,
I got ants in my pants and I need to dance.

And when I take her back to her mound, I’ll tie a little ribbon
around her neck so I’ll be able to distinguish her from others
when date night comes again.

Jeffrey Zable is a teacher, conga drummer/percussionist who plays for dance classes and rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area, and a writer of poetry, flash-fiction, and non-fiction. He’s published five chapbooks and his writing has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies, more recently in Rundelania, Misfit, Streetcake, Piker Press, Corvus, Dark Winter, The Ravens Perch, Datura, Bramble and many others. His selected poetry, “When I’m Dead and Feeling Blue” is now available from Amazon or directly from Androgyne Books.

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