Was that a Kiss? #1
"Was that a kiss?" I said.
Felt more like the wind
Putting on its felt hat
Or the innocent laugh
Of a child Stuck in chocolate pudding.
Whatever it was,
I'm going back for more.
Was that a Kiss? # 2
One question that can make a man
Feel like a little dog with a game leg
Comes when some blowzy woman
With big, experienced lips
Gets in your face Before breakfast And howls,
"What makes you think
That was a kiss?"
Was that a Kiss? # 3
Smashed the sucker
With a forearm shiver
Watched him Pancake backwards
Then stagger up
On wobbly legs,
Spit in my eye
And calmly ask"
That all you got,
Big Boy, Or was that just a kiss?"
Was that a Kiss? # 4
My fingers searched the bowl
Looking for bonbons
Or lemon-filled jelly babies
Until I felt the smooth
Silver Hershey wrapper
Wriggling towards freedom.
Then I called out its name
Wondering, if it feared me
Or was it simply
Kisses on the run.
Was that a Kiss? # 5
Was that a kiss?
Why not ask if death Is real
or if the sun Shines in winter time?
In other words--
Why must you harry me
With rhetorical questions
When all I want
Is to cuddle In your lap Like a small, yellow dog?
