The poem describes an unwanted kiss from the narrator's aunt. In the first stanza, the aunt squeezes the narrator's face between her bony hands like a concertina. In the second stanza, the aunt puckers her lips into a "wet doughnut" and says "come here" repeatedly as she moves in to kiss the narrator, who cannot escape. In the third stanza, the narrator sees the aunt's lips moving in slowly like an "unstoppable doughnut" through the air, dreading that the incoming "killer kiss" will be a "wet one."