Austin Writers' League (by Thom the World Poet)

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I like her - I like her false blonde hair
I like her swept back fake blonde haircut
I like her tan,
I like her internal studio fake tan
I like her skin,
I like the smooth brown sheen of her skin
I like her black bra
Peeking out underneath her blue top
I even like her ear-ring
Big and brassy as a Texas star
I like her ear and her one eye I can see
Her blue eye mascara and her red fire fingernails
Even the furrowed creases in her neck
(All this I can see only from her back)
She has so many things that I lack
(I guess only knowing her a little
Helps me like her a LOT!

Now she turns..

I like her hard lips; I like her cosmetic skin;
I like her sad eyes
I like her red underwear peeking over the top
    of her blue trousers
She wears glasses
     but they are discarded as she listens deep
Gold framed glasses
      sitting upside down on the next chair
Near a hard cover book she has just bought
And will probably read once she leaves here
(She wears no ring) My guess is she once did.
I like the book even without reading it
I like her golden glasses, casually discarded
I like her emptied fingers - but see!
I like that black watch she is wearing
LOOK UP! I like the way her breasts are hinted at
I like that black bra strap
I like the fact that she works out
I even like the fact that we will never meet
And she will never read this

I like that - I like that A LOT
(And she would, too)

  ---(Thom World Poet)---