W3 Prompt # 225....THE SKEPTICS KADDISH

PROMPT

An old woman blows out 78 candles on her birthday cake but one refuses to go out no matter how hard she blows. It burns with a blue flame and whispers a name she has not heard in 40 years Your poem is her conversation with that candle What does she decide to do: let it keep burning or pinch it out?

instantaneous reaction
was to throw the cake
out of the window
certainly not
pinch it out
and burn her fingers
certainly not

let it keep burning
she had mastered the art
of turning someone
into a pane of glass
so that they didn't exist

after all
she was the one
who taught her
by example
how to do it