since he has pumped up his pecs and polished his charm
every female heart within a fifty mile radius is under
siege or possible harm
he is a man you can't readily define
but if he can't stop being everyone's man
I sure as hell don't want him to be mine
plucking at my costly collected courage I ask him
self consciously to dance
he looks like a sure fired opportunity that's just
waiting to take a chance
surely not all former fools flail in their apparent
needs
even the devil himself is occasionally cursed by his
own dastardly deeds
and every suffered soul that is caught up in its pain
bawls as it bleeds
for there is little or no pity offered to the passive
one who pleads..............
(written June 9,1992 pm)