SMOOTH AS SILK 1967

A BOY VISITS A GIRL IN HOSPITAL IN 1967

She's smoking
looking out
at the grounds

of the old
hospital
she's sitting

on a bench
green with age
it's summer

and she wears
the short dress
with birds on

I see her
sitting there
her legs crossed

one white foot
dangling
hi Nima

I call out
she turns round
exhales grey smoke

so you've come
after all
didn't think

you'd turn up
after we had
that big row

(in London
all about
not getting

a hotel room
for the night)
how are you?

I ask her
I sit down
on the bench

next to her
I'm pissed off
she replies

stuck in here
with mentals
suicides

drug cases
just like me
with no drugs

not my sort
no freedom
no alcohol

and no sex
I light up
a cigar

and inhale
a nurse passes
blue and white

uniform
black stockings
and black shoes

I study
her neat a*s
she's the best

they've got here
Nima says
a bright gem

amongst dross
I suppose
you'd like her

on my bed
I know I
do some night

just looking
I reply
nothing more

I recall
that dirty
Saturday

in that cheap
hotel room
in London

a few weeks
back in time
having sex

so often
in the night
I felt like

Sisyphus
pushing it
and then down

book early
next weekend
I get out

Nima says
I'm sex starved
P***y Cat

needs her milk
I concur
and say so

studying
her crossed legs
smooth as silk.