John Grey
He naps in the afternoon
and she has no need to.
He awakes at twilight
while she’s lost in headphones,
and a further round of pinkness
for her nails.
She’s twenty years his junior,
rescued from waitressing
by a guy in a suit
with a fancy car
and an expense account.
But she hasn’t had the desired effect.
For all his efforts to relive it,
his youth has other plans.
So he lives with this girl –
he can’t think of her as a woman –
and every second word
out of her mouth is slang,
every parcel the Prime truck
drops at her door
is ordered by her,
but on his credit card.
And chances are,
either this year or the next,
she’ll fly his fancy coop,
take up with someone
her own age.
With a drink, a glass,
and a dollop of self-pity,
he’ll learn the world over again.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, City Brink and Tenth Muse. Latest books, “Subject Matters”,” Between Two Fires” and “Covert” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Hawaii Pacific Review, Amazing Stories, and Cantos.