Monday, November 2, 2009

WEDNESDAY- "LOVE ON THE SIDE"

Shooncho invited him over for dinner

My wife's an expert in Italian

She feels as nervous as before her matriculation exams

And why does the fact that he's brought a date, not upset her but torment her?

So, no matter how rude I came across as

I refused to kiss him on the cheek or shake hands

Because I felt I had to be careful with him

He's one of those

With all that mysterious confidence

With a face that is sometimes handsome, sometimes just strange

Who you feel can read your mind and doesn't let on

And occasionally smiles to scare you

He can look deep into my eyes, my lips, the very folds of my soul

He strips me

He's infuriating

Cerebral palsy has mildly distorted her lower lip

Making the left side of her mouth curve sexily while speaking emphatically or smiling

A face like a rainbow

So beautiful that it almost hurt to look at it

Knowing that such perfectness would be hard to experience again

The two slightly protruding canines that lent her a babyish innocence at thirty four

I want to keep looking at your face

With the edible, pouting lower lip and the hazel eyes and that chandelier smile

I'll eat you for breakfast

His love, at that moment, resembled his appetite; voracious, insatiable

He could actually, really, devour her

I'm with her

He's with you

But you get it

And I get it

Let's want to fall in love

For the things we now know

Let's misbehave

I still remember

Our first touch

Playing footsie under the table for four

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