at the window of Vinnie's Pizza.
Christina Kisses me.
I don't know how long
for now
will be this time round.
She is a Scorpio
from Portland,
emphasizing Maine, not Oregon.
Her baggage is lighter than mine,
even though I recently
switched from duffle to Away.
We want this to be real,
and that want is real,
but that's about it.
She kisses me,
walks away without turning around;
I book an Uber.
A poet, too,
a pretty 30-year-old,
pretending with the best of them.
Her Shakespeare tattoo
quotes Measure for Measure:
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure...She finally tells me
via text.
Of course her middle name is Jean.