SLIP

 I told her

     with firm conviction, secure,

     with confident tenderness,

that she was mine.

Had any woman ever said such a thing to me

I would have pulled her into my arms and kissed her

     with manifest sexual desire.  

I would have loved her even more,

for such words.

To be loved,

     asserted as an observation

     of adamant fact --

how comforting.

She
however

was offended.


J