Remember that time
we came home
from drinking
at that party
and I was pretty
much sloshed?
she said
and we staggered
along that roadway
and I began singing
that love song
and you joined in
and we were like
a pair of unsober
Sinatra and Ella?
I nodded my head
lying on our bed
waiting for her
to undress
and we had just left
that friend of yours
that one who kept
touching my ***
and you just laughed
and said he was just
being friendly
and whose face
I slapped and you
made it up to him
saying it was that
kind of week?
sure I remember
I said
scratching my thigh
and as we got to that
junction going off
into town and down
to this place
and I felt the sudden
need to ***
and you said
go do it in that porch
and I said what if
someone sees
and you said
I'll tell them you
were trying it
out for size?
Sure I do
I said
as you stood there
**** naked gazing
at yourself in
the tall-boy mirror
but I didn't I held it in
and walked that
funny walk
with my hands
pushed between my legs
and you said
think of a desert
and no water
and I ran the last few
feet in the door
and just made it in time
and you came in
and shut the door
but I hadn't
I'd peed on the floor?
Yes I recall
I said
but I didn't at all.
May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 2:55 AM UTC
Remember that time
we came home
from drinking
at that party
and I was pretty
much sloshed?
she said
and we staggered
along that roadway
and I began singing
that love song
and you joined in
and we were like
a pair of unsober
Sinatra and Ella?
I nodded my head
lying on our bed
waiting for her
to undress
and we had just left
that friend of yours
that one who kept
touching my ***
and you just laughed
and said he was just
being friendly
and whose face
I slapped and you
made it up to him
saying it was that
kind of week?
sure I remember
I said
scratching my thigh
and as we got to that
junction going off
into town and down
to this place
and I felt the sudden
need to ***
and you said
go do it in that porch
and I said what if
someone sees
and you said
I'll tell them you
were trying it
out for size?
Sure I do
I said
as you stood there
**** naked gazing
at yourself in
the tall-boy mirror
but I didn't I held it in
and walked that
funny walk
with my hands
pushed between my legs
and you said
think of a desert
and no water
and I ran the last few
feet in the door
and just made it in time
and you came in
and shut the door
but I hadn't
I'd peed on the floor?
Yes I recall
I said
but I didn't at all.
A WOMAN AND HER MAN AND TALK OF THE PAST IN 1975.
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