I Can Read Your MindA Poem by David Lewis PagetI think she came from a Gypsy Clan Where Dracula spilt his blood, All that way in a caravan To live in a field of mud, But she danced like a whirling dervish, At the campfire by the sea, While I looked on like a love-lost one Each time that she looked at me.
She wore a bright red rose in the hair That was long, and thick, and black, And dangling golden earrings, With a shawl across her back, But I stood transfixed as she twirled and kicked, I felt like a man who begs, Her skirt flared out as she danced about And all I could see was legs.
All I could see was legs, I said, The legs of a country girl, The fine and moulded calves and thighs That had danced half round the world. She smiled with a hint of mystery As she flashed her cute behind, And said, ‘I know all your history, For I can read your mind!’
She danced away in a sort of play Now she’d got me on the hop, I didn’t know where to put my eyes On her breasts, or eyes, or what! She certainly was a buxom girl But her legs had made me blind, She kicked up high and she showed a thigh, That said, ‘I can read your mind!’
I hadn’t much of a mind just then It was all consumed with lust, Why can a thigh make a grown man cry? I thought it was so unjust. A man could dance til the cows came home But it wouldn’t raise an eye, While the other kind could make men blind At the glance of a naked thigh.
I shook my head and I turned away I couldn’t take more of this, If that, her wheeze, was merely a tease, She’d cornered the world of bliss. But she stopped her prance and her wild dance As I walked off into the trees, She followed me from the clearing there, Kicking up autumn leaves.
I turned, as she was behind me then And pressed her against a tree, I said, ‘Just tell me your Gypsy name,’ She said it was Chavali. ‘Well, Chavali you’re a teaser, Are you really one of a kind?’ She raised her eyes to the northern skies And said, ‘I can read your mind!’
We wandered into the furthest woods And we found a bed of leaves, I couldn’t tell you what happened there, Though Chavali skinned her knees. But now, today, it’s a world away And I’m not a man who begs, For every time, she can read my mind And flashes her Gypsy legs.
David Lewis Paget © 2014 David Lewis PagetReviews
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