Lizbeth's Sex Book for 1961.

Lizbeth knows

her mother

has found

the hidden sex book

in her wardrobe

by the simple fact

it was replaced

in the wrong place.

She wondered why her mother

had stared at her coldly

when she came in

from school,

now she knows.

How much

had she seen?

Lizbeth bets her mother

would have turned bright red

gazing through the pages

of naked men and women

occasionally in certain positions,

especially the one

on page thirty one.

She knows her mother

will bring it up over dinner

when her father is there.

He won't say.much

except later

say in Italian Era buono?

Her mother

not knowing Italian

will assume he

is censoring Lizbeth

and feel justified.

But he would have not

and innocently lied.