By Pepper
Date: 2001 Sep 07
Comment on this Work
[[2001.09.07.18.51.31204]]

pretending

you wait for me
by your door, waiting to hear the footseps
dancing up the wood
when I knock, you count ten before answering the
white wether-struck door
as if
you have not been waiting

I grin at your hidden excitement
the way you desparately try to pretend to be indifferently happy
at my arrival

I kiss you
the way
you don't
want me
to know
you want