Lost & Found
Let me love you
in an empty townhouse
on Fairfax Street
Let me laugh at you
sweating twilights
in Glover Park
Across splintery floors
and blankets of yard
Gin and Tonics
dry Martinis
hair slicked back
I lived by the canal
and got my hair cut there
was followed everywhere
Except to school
In the brightest light of summer
the steps to campus
in Mississippi shadows
When I got dinner
the bright-eyed fellow
couldn’t do the math
I had barely six dollars for
ham and cheese, turned out
he had much less than that
I only needed a sandwich and
wouldn’t have minded losing
50 cents
Some grumbling from the back
got him trembling, made him forget
or not realize
That 90 minus 63
will not matter, ever
beyond Georgetown
Meanwhile, back at the Papermill
there were accusatory messages:
to whomever stole my Tab…
Well, I stole your Tab!
and had less than perfect respect
That makes a thief
This is a good one.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It's grown on me. It's honest.
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