Blind Date
Blind Date
The restaurant table was like the Sea of Galilee
as she sat on the other side of the white linen ocean
guarding her food and gaze
her expression said Genghis Khan was coming to dinner
so I could tell she didn’t like me
and I knew then we would never make love, or
make up, or cook together or argue or take selfies
and when we had finished eating and staring into the sea
I walked her to her car in her CIA coat and sensible shoes
and she didn’t arrest me because of what I was thinking
well… she didn’t like me did she?
and that’s the way it was as she drove away
and the dirty moon looked down like an uncle
and bathed my whiskers
and that’s the way it was
Copyright © Peter Lewis Holmes | Year Posted 2015
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