Acrylic, 36” x 24”, Framed

Eight Lemons

By Cora Ellen Nimmo

Eight lemons and a pain in the left side of my neck.

What to do? What to do? 

They’ll say: make a nice lemonade. Invite the neighbors over, with plenty of sugar to wash it down. But these lemons feel like plastic and their exocarps are turning – fresh daffodil into oxidized mustard. Plus, the young woman, the one with the smashed finger, at the chiropractor told me parasites feed on sugar; so I poured the remaining Imperial Sugar I had down the toilet when I got home. 

And anyway, there’s not enough sugar in the world to wash this down.