The Wounded Nymph
Will de Kypia
______Honey, if you just had some tits you’d be a real fox
______the guy says, big hands cupping what little she’s got.
______Yeah, a bit more on top and you’d turn a few heads,
______as he clumsily pushes her onto her rumpled twin bed.
______But don't you fret, everything I need is down there.
______Her abandoned thighs spread, she tries not to care.
______Two strangers breaststroke and backstroke on dirty
______sheets, two hungry bodies turn into pieces of meat.
______She moves, she gives, she grabs her own share—
______ten minutes to pretend that she's part of a pair.
______Hey, that wasn't bad, babe, not bad at all.
______Now I gotta split, pick up the kid at day care
______and hustle back home before my wife gets there.
______He pops the last beer and says he might call.
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______She loves many men, for a night or an hour.
______Until her busty ex-best friend soul-shifted to
______whore she'd loved only one, wanted no more.
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______She'd always been smart, with him
______she was clever, felt her mind sparkling
______quicksilver whenever they were together.
______Born to be wary, with him she turned
______wild. And on a warm summer's day
______she decided to stop being a child.
______They were at his cabana, skip-dodging
______the breakers pounding a private beach.
______Accepting a dare the girl dove into the waves,
______then a proud almost-woman rose from the ocean
______and made love to a man who would always be hers.
______If there were portents—___
________the gulls fleeing seaward in horror
________or distant thunder warning of storms—
______her adoring eyes did not see them,
______she heard nothing except his voice.
All summer long she soared like a
goddess roaming the heavens, knowing her
consort planned to make her his bride.
When autumn came he ghosted her.
Their romance was a sex game they
played in the sand and she's a grain of that
sand her lover brushed off his hand.
Today she lies alone in a crowded bed
remembering those waited-for words he
never said, still dreaming she'd been
his true love instead of his prey.
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