By Misti Velvet Rainwater <mvrain@schreiner.edu>
Date: 5 May 1998

you would

you would love me
  in that way
if I gave in
 but I won't
there are other girls 
 for that
girls you can drink with
  and sleep with
get crazy with 
  on a random
 Saturday night

I have a soul
 a certain amount
  of depth
and self-respect
 love is not a word
   to me
 but a miracle

I will never
 lay down
   for you
and be just another
  erotic experience
another good time
  had by all
all being you
  you having
    it all
 all the
   glamor
all the power
 all the nerve
  that I lack