I've posted a piece that's longer than the poetry section allows.
In the "Short Story" section.
I know I could take things out - to make the piece shorter and force it to fit in the poems section - but that length seems arbitrary *shrug*
Here's the URL:
https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/travel_week_10509
If you bother, I hope you like it!
Here's some unbelievable prices from the fifties
Our first house cost us $11,800 and it was really nifty
Our first car cost
$2,800 oh my gosh
Thems was the days, also “nursed” a few hickies
she will tattoo me
too many hickies to count
my heart blooms roses
Sixteen year old sweethearts, in her house all alone;
Her father still at work, her mother not at home;
Kissing they had tried; leaving hickies on their necks;
Petting body parts, they would venture onto next.
TV providing light in her otherwise dark playroom;
Anticipation and fear, the young couple both consume.
Zippers unzip; not sure of what they might find,
“Stop”; “Keep on going”; playing ping-pong in their mind.
Touching other’s body parts; enjoying where they are touched;
Worried that they may be liking it a little bit too much.
Conscience of each other breathing deeper as they explore,
Also listening carefully for the closing of a car door.
Bodies start to entwine, venturing further then they had thought;
Biology they learned in school but this topic had not been taught.
How to stop once you’ve gone this far is a lesson hard to learn,
As this high school sweetheart couple reach the point of no return.
Clumsily they manage to get through their first time;
Pleasure, pain and guilt feelings make a mixture quite sublime.
Quietly they get dressed as they hear her Mom walk in the door,
Both of them wondering if they’ll ever do this any more.
ALL THROUGHOUT HER DAY SHE CANT GET HIM OUT HER MIND
SHE TRIES TO CONCENTRATE BUT HE OCCUPIES HER THOUGHTS
LAST NIGHT WAS SO PERFECT JUST THE TWO OF THEM
MAKING LOVE UNDER THE MIDNIGHT MOON LOST IN EACHOTHER
EMBRACING AND LOVING ONE ANOTHERS TOUCH THE SMELL OF
SEX IN THE AIR
SHE KNOWS IT CANT GET BETTER THAN THIS NOR COULD IT GET
WORSE
OR SO SHE THOUGHT
HE WENT DOWN ON HER FOR HOURS AS SHE CLIMAXED
SWET POURING ALL OVER THEM THIS WAS AS GOOD AS IT GETS
OR SO SHE THOUGHT
MAKING LOVE WAS SO IMPORTANT SHE HAD TO KEEP HIM AROUND
SO SHE GAVE HERSELF SO FREELY WHENEVER HE WANTED
AS THE SUN CAME UP AND THE ROOM FILLED WITH LIGHT
SHE BAGAN TO NOTICE SCRATCHES AND HICKIES THAT WERE NEVER
THERE
OR SO SHE THOUGHT
HE JUMPED IN THE SHOWER AND SHE BEGAN TO INVESTIGATE SHE
LOOKED THROUGH HIS POCKETS AND FOUND FOUR CONDOMS
THEN TURNED ON HIS PHONE AND SAW PICTURES OF WOMEN
DOING THE SAME THING TO THEM AS HE DID TO HER
OR SO SHE THOUGHT
SHE CHECKED FOR PHONE NUMBERS ANSD IT CAME BACK AS STEVE
THE PICTURES SHE SAW WHERE OF HER BEST FRIENDS MAN
HES SLEEPING WITH A MAN
DAMN!
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