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she knows he will come again and again / to sample her delicious pleasures

until the day  / when he calls her that name

 

 

Those Were the Days

inspired by the movie "Once Upon A Time in America"

 By Liberty R. O. Daniels

making out on the tops of tenement roofs

where laundry hanging across clothes lines

blows in the wind

simulating billowy bordello beds

comrades peer around corners

protecting their vaginal repository

from nosy neighbors

and others who might want to taste

the sweet nectar

of a girl not yet a woman

but knowing of womanly things

quickly observing

how to treat a boy

during his first time

teasing and pleasing

confident that she has something he wants

even though she charges him

an ice cream cone

or a frosted dessert

with a cherry on top

she knows he will come again and again

to sample her delicious pleasures

until the day

when he calls her that name

that he will not even whisper now

because the thought of insulting her

is as distasteful as

marrying someone like her

someone whose eyes sparkle in the moonlight

as he looks down upon her

he kisses her lips and imagines her only with him

until his pal pulls him off

immediately after ejaculation

pivots himself in place

and dissolves his own body fluids within

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© by Liberty R. O. Daniels

 

 
  

Liberty R. O. Daniels is a Flint native currently residing in the greater Detroit Metropolitan Area. Influenced at a young age by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," she writes epic poems (or short stories that rhyme) and travels the poetry circuit featuring with sultry coos and howls at American and Canadian venues. An advocate, prominent member, and project coordinator of several cultural and writing organizations, Liberty is the founding editor of "P.O.E.T.S. Newsletter," editor of the Southeast Michigan Region of the International Women's Writing Guild newsletter, and editor of the Southeast Michigan Unit of the National Writer's Union newsletter, "SEMantics."

 

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