with a smattering of lip stick
dusted across my pale palm
I realize though it is a truly
soothing color
I myself am not so very calm
as I am most eager for the first
actual second I see him in
the thriving flesh
so alive, so happy, so here
and unbelievably fresh
and as baited with tasty
anticipation as I myself for
twenty weeks have been
to be together at long last
oh how the reality of the
soon to take place event seems
to repeatedly do me in..........
(Jan. 1, 1994 pm)