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Drink

Then you remember how you take it
and you want to pull it into you,
for it to work you over,
dusk shushing day.
There.
You’ve admitted it.
After you step out of sensation,
that silky dress,
shrug into shame,
and return, you recall the afternoon you
fucked the security guard on top of a parking garage
while a neighboring rooftop party saw and began to watch,
but you weren’t about to stop now,
so you kept on; exposed
for being the kind of girl you are.
You imagine how it will feel,
not long from now,
when images meld, particulars scatter, when
the body’s ceaseless clanging burnishes,
almost too simply,
to a single flossy peal.
Your shoulders tense slightly
as you sense the clock’s progress,
its second hand shoving tenaciously forward.
You slap each minute down
like cards in hands of blackjack you win
and win and win.
The hour sits like a man at the end of the bar
working up his nerve to come over.
For now you wait.
It isn’t anguish or an ache,
it’s nothing like a low, ravening growl
because you know when it’s time,
he’ll pick up a glass,
split the din and smoke,
stride past the swaying drunks mirrored in the radiant brass,
thighs swinging like pendulums,
and find you. In the dark
he’ll sing your name,
raise each syllable like a hammer ringing air,
fill up every vowel with his heavy
throaty song because you deserve it, it’s what you
deserve, it’s your birthright,
primeval as the thing rocking his hips,
and he’ll give it to you good
for being the kind of girl you are.

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