Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Waiting for that first kiss April 7, 2012

 


I drive too far too long

 with too many strange thoughts

tumbling in my head,

steering to a place

where my face is too familiar,

 drawing frowns from people

who ask me why I'm there,

when this isn't Tuesday,

I am helpless to tell them

 why I've come when she is

the only one who knows,

looking yet not looking at me,

when I arrive, not quite a tease,

yet I tingle up and down

 and all around even

 at the least look in my direction,

 she with limbs like a spider's

and crooked lips any sane man

would want to kiss,

 only I'm not sane

I dip down deep into a gaze

I feel swallows me whole,

making me tremble,

 me acting like I did at

 16, or 15 or 14,

 when bracing myself

 for my first kiss

she giving me that look that says

 "If you're a good boy..."

Maybe.

 




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