After the party

After the party

• it’s just the two of us now.
• What more is there to say?
• Besides, there are dishes
• to do, chairs and tables
• to dust and rearrange.
• Oh but this you say,
• this is what you’ve been
• waiting for? You’re hopeless.
• Didn’t you see Sherry?
• Those pants! Way too tight,
• gripped her body
• like a banana peel.
• And Tom, oh Tom,
• his starving eyes,
• grazing over her like a wolf.
• They’d be a mess together.
• Really? What a warped notion
• of beauty you have.
• It’s not that funny
• that I notice these things.
• And look—you missed a spot.
• Yes, here. Open your eyes.
• And about Sherry
• and Tom—I’d never tell them
• what I said, of course.
• It’s all hypothetical, dear.
• When does love enter
• the picture?
• Don’t get so sentimental.
• It always finds
• a way, dear,
• it always does.