By chris
Date: 2007 Mar 22
Comment on this Work
[[2007.03.22.00.03.5693]]

Closet Cleaning

There was for example
the Libra who gave sensible advice but chickened
out
at the last minute
for the 2 a.m. cinnamon-rolls-and-coffee date at
the Frontier
and the schoolteacher
who in retrospect
probably should have used a phony name
who sent nude photos of herself
spread wide as day
on what looked like a thrift-store couch
and then disappeared
into promiscuous
obscurity
and the other one who thought
on that one date
that I talked about green and red chile too much
so she in turn talked about her ex
too much
and my food tasted suddenly bland
and bitter
while hers seemed to look better than ever
to her
so the waitress began to look better
to me
and so it went
straight out the door
like the final one before the chapter ended
who thought that dating a white boy
who wasn't in a gang was
like
way cool
and toyed with me
on a work night no less
for four hours
ending up nearly naked in bed
plus-size panties balled on the floor
wanting badly to see what was behind door number
two
but not really
finally getting dressed
and leaving me to a set alarm clock and half-
eaten apple
turning brown
on the counter.