Loveday Why
Bakery Girl
I should have gone to find you
afterwards
to say:
Sorry, I don’t know me,
I wasn’t listening when
my heart leapt
and I felt sick and
blind at the sight of you and
anxious
that my hair was
in place.
I should have responded with
happy obvious flirtation
prettily as you imagined
I would
positioning yourself so
to lean
casually against the price lists
Cornish pasties 79p
But I forced my
face down
busily scribbling biro sums
on a paper bag which I
twirled twice and
gave to you
held out my hand and
turned away;
your voice drifting over me
somewhere
where I couldn’t
or didn’t
reach
I should have met your eyes.
I should have reached over the
pie cabinet
when you leant towards me
and clasped
your face in my hands
and said
Yes
Yes
I am yours
scattering pastries.
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