Whenever I drive by the house they lived in I think of the story my wife told me about Abby feeling extreme discomfort one day a searing bloated feeling up in the back of her vagina so she goes to see the doctor worried as hell about tumors & cancer about having to have a hysterectomy & the doctor does the normal blood tests & urine tests x-rays & the rest stands there clasping his chin like doctors do shaking his head slowly finally sticks that metal clamp in opens her up wider to have a closer look-see surprised even he's surprised to find a tampon string & all discolored a disgusting brown stuffed back up in there squished up hard solid like cement against her cervix seems that one night Abby & her Jerked-Off Bumpkin husband with the crooked teeth & folded over ears were so eager to fuck that she forgot to take her damn tampon out.
Michael Estabrook's poems have appeared in hundreds of small press publications including those produced by Asterius Press.