By Misti
Date: 2004 Nov 15
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Purple Hickey

after shopping for Atkins diet staples
and checking out the pyramid hotel for a wedding
possibility
we watched "Dirty Dancing"
which you had never seen
I told you I first saw it when I was fifteen
and hoped I'd someday find a guy to gyrate with
told you that Patrick Swayze is a Leo
like you
(I've always loved Lions)
for years I hated that movie
because it reminded me of my abysmal adolescence
but last night I loved it all over again
because you're the dancing partner
I yearned for
and you are so mine
and I am so yours
waking up this morning to your crazy woodpecker laughter
over the huge purple hickey
you planted
on my
shoulder.