& you looked a real gentleman

with your collar folded

& teeth recently brushed

i had to raise my brows

just so my blue eyes

could catch a glimpse of you.

[[an invisible connect-the-dots]]

you gently kicked my foot against

the booth,

Sandy & Danny Zuko,

in that fifties malt shop

plopped in the middle of this

bustling

----> hustling

city.

::::pulling so so gently on the cuffs of my pin-striped blouse, undoing the buttons like a secret puzzle, like you jinxed me & i can't tell you the answers but instead just watch..dipping my curly-Q fries into ketchup, taking my mind off you & closing my heart so you can't rob it again.::::

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