Miss Pinkie
(she dropped the Mrs
when the divorce
came through)
liked to put on
Mahler’s 1st symphony
when he came around
and he brought
the bottle of scotch
and when she let him in
she said
ah Professor
you have brought
the *****
I shall slip into something
more comfortable later
and she closed the door
behind him
and followed him
up the passage
her flip-flops
flapping behind him
like some penguin
and already he could hear
the opening bars
of the Mahler
as he entered the lounge
and smelt her perfume
and she took the bottle
and he said
I’ve selected the poems
for my first book
and she said
from the kitchen
o good
you’ll have to let me
read them before you
send them off
sure
he replied
sitting on her sofa
remembering where
he’d made love last time
and how he almost
fell off the sofa
but clung onto
her ample flesh in time
and how she laughed
and said
man overboard
throw him a lifebuoy
and as she came
with two glasses of the *****
and set them down
on the table
she sat down next to him
and kissed his cheek
and said
thanks for the *****
and for coming
and hey loosen that collar
this is no funeral
and her fingers undid
his shirt collar
down half way
and she rubbed his chest
and hairs
isn’t that better?
sure
he said
and leaned forward
and sipped the *****
already Pete in the pants
was stirring
and she said
I like this Mahler piece
it does things to me
and he listened
to the trumpets
and violins and those cellos
and sipped again
and her eyes widened
and her lips
came down on him
and he lay back
on the sofa overwhelmed
and like a drowning man
opened wide his arms
and waved
but none came
to rescue
no lifeboats set out
no one in sight
just him and Miss Pinkie
and Mahler
and the long hot night.
Aug 31, 2012
Aug 31, 2012 at 3:37 AM UTC
Miss Pinkie
(she dropped the Mrs
when the divorce
came through)
liked to put on
Mahler’s 1st symphony
when he came around
and he brought
the bottle of scotch
and when she let him in
she said
ah Professor
you have brought
the *****
I shall slip into something
more comfortable later
and she closed the door
behind him
and followed him
up the passage
her flip-flops
flapping behind him
like some penguin
and already he could hear
the opening bars
of the Mahler
as he entered the lounge
and smelt her perfume
and she took the bottle
and he said
I’ve selected the poems
for my first book
and she said
from the kitchen
o good
you’ll have to let me
read them before you
send them off
sure
he replied
sitting on her sofa
remembering where
he’d made love last time
and how he almost
fell off the sofa
but clung onto
her ample flesh in time
and how she laughed
and said
man overboard
throw him a lifebuoy
and as she came
with two glasses of the *****
and set them down
on the table
she sat down next to him
and kissed his cheek
and said
thanks for the *****
and for coming
and hey loosen that collar
this is no funeral
and her fingers undid
his shirt collar
down half way
and she rubbed his chest
and hairs
isn’t that better?
sure
he said
and leaned forward
and sipped the *****
already Pete in the pants
was stirring
and she said
I like this Mahler piece
it does things to me
and he listened
to the trumpets
and violins and those cellos
and sipped again
and her eyes widened
and her lips
came down on him
and he lay back
on the sofa overwhelmed
and like a drowning man
opened wide his arms
and waved
but none came
to rescue
no lifeboats set out
no one in sight
just him and Miss Pinkie
and Mahler
and the long hot night.
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