Wednesday, May 15, 2024

First Holy Communion? March 27, 2012


I gave her the book

because

she said she didn't know

 how to do what

 she was hired to do,

though we both knew

she knew better,

how good she was at it,

having proven herself

again and again for months

I had this book that might help her,

And gave it to her

As if I was giving her Holy Communion

Never imagining the consequences

Until last night

When she texted to tell me

How much she was

Into me

With me telling her

I am an old man

Half blind,

With an eye patch over one eye

Like a pirate

I won’t deny admiring her

the sleek figure seated

 at the desk near the window,

or across the meeting table from me,

 her gaze thick with potential

 I might only guess about,

 and now I wonder

what comes next.

 



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