The Old Man’s Temptation
She was sitting exactly opposite me
From Mile End to Queensway reading
My book on how successfully to conceal
The major signs of age by transferring
Bad conquests into invented kissing tales
(Almost at the entrance to bragging)
About all the passing females and males
Who boasted almost nothing sagging
And whose desire for every reader always wins
In order to visit a multitude of our secret sins -
Then suddenly I had the strangest need
A temptation to place my lips on her knee
Only God knows where it may slowly lead
Even perhaps on to her iliac crest’s lee
And so on that ridge I can travel in style
Her fragrant beauty lighting my last mile
But sadly that day I was far too old and meek
And she too young to know why & what I seek -
We parted without even a goodbye look
Her fingers still clutching my wise book
Mine inventing one wholly new patella story
Full of forbidden joy and unexpected glory
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