Cassiopeia’s
A Greek Goddess of Something or Other
And the Club on OK H11
I.
She leans over, whispers in his ear,
the clack of billiard balls, the swoop
of the long green,
and he can’t hear her words over
the curling smoke
and laughter
and the jukebox.
She’s having a baby
and a Coor’s Light in a can
as the waitress from
Newkirk wanders over.
II.
She wants to go home, her feet tired
and sore from the pinch of the sexy
black shoes with the open toe—the
tipping shoes that make her
calves
look so good,
full with succulent flesh
and the light blonde stubble,
invisible
to all but the touch
of his hand
as his woman leans over
to whisper in his ear.
III.
He wishes the Newkirk girl would
lean over more.
But he knows she’ll expect him to tip
if his hand should
wander
beneath her skirt.
He’s only got three dollars left
from his check this week—blown
all at the slots
in the tiny back room off the
Tonkawa Smoke Shop.
Someday he’ll get lucky.
His woman leans over to whisper in his ear.
Comments
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this is a very wonderful piece it deffinatly had my full undevided attention the entire time. I love how it's is a story that is something that would happen in real life. great write here
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This is such an intesting piece. I really enjoyed it and it held my attention tjroughout. I did wonder about the women in this, wasn't sure if there were one or trwo women in this, but read it as two, which made the piece take on a whole different meaning for me. It then became so sad, as the male in her life and thew mother of the child to be seemed like a nit of a waster. He's blown all his money and is too busy with the pool game and waitress to show a lot of ineterest in her, despite the trouble she has gone to looking good for him.
Oops sorry my comment is almost longer than your poem.
Thank you so much for sharing
Gaylene
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Welcome to All Poetry
I love the way that you have set this poem out as it sets the scene and adds an almost tale effect to it which I found to be creative and unique for the piece you have written. i love the essence of a historic feel it seemed to have and the way I had to read between the lines as well as image lines within it. a wonderful write well done
Charlotte
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