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Showing posts with label checkered pasts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label checkered pasts. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2012

BACK IN THE DAY



Poetry Potluck--With Real Toads--d'Verse Poets Pub


She had a checkered past.


But with my thrift store
mentality, I didn't mind buying used--
(there's something very cozy
about things that are broken in)
long as it looked like
it would stand up to the
wear and tear. 

One day she said to me:
Why are you with me?
I'm such a whore.

I like whores, I said.

She gave me a look of utter incredulity.

But if she had thought about it,
even a little,
she would have figured that out
the third time we visited 
the Salvation Army store.