Falling in Love with Sad King John

When I watch you, and I mean… watch you
Like a stalker at poetry readings

I am at first engaged, noticing the enunciation
You do, the measured beat, the drum like inevitability
Of your cascading words

And then I sink into you
I feel selfish, like the words are for me
And that each syllable is your fingers

Undoing one button at a time
From my bodice
That each time your lips make a word
It is for me and then your lips are upon me

And so I relax and lay back
Let myself be worshipped
Knowing you would prefer my poet

Mouth, poet pussy above all others
Knowing someday you will read to me in person
And it will all be like your tongue

Inside me – inevitable.

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Elisabeth Horan is a poet mother student lover of kind people and animals, homesteading in Vermont with her tolerant partner and two young sons. She writes to survive and survives to write - We are all battling something. Let's support each other. Elisabeth enjoys riding horses and caring for her cats, chickens, goats and children (not necessarily in that order). She teaches at River Valley Community College in New Hampshire.

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