One Hundred Years of Solitude

extreme from discipline, in
noisy parties, in gossip about
lovers, in prolonged sessions
with her girl friends, where
they learned to smoke and
talked about male business,
and where they once got their
hands on some cane liquor
and ended up naked,
measuring and comparing the
parts of their bodies. Meme
would never forget that night
when she arrived home
chewing licorice lozenges,