A Woman with Qualities He acted with a desperate Girlishness That made me want to Slap his face Not that I’ve got anything against girls (Trust me, I don’t) It was just unseemly For a curling eyelash To have such effect Upon a guy so self-assured I mean She wasn’t even pretty Or intelligent enough to act dumb (Unless misquoting Musil was her way) I shot straight from the hip And let him have it While she was at the loo It did the trick That she had other qualities Would only come to light As time traipsed on and cookies crumbled and I let her teach me that Mascara really lent a certain depth To those who mastered the technique ________________________________________________________________________ Emanuel E. García, A Deeper Symmetry, 2014 |