MADE HIS DAY.

A MAN STUDIES A YOUNG DAME IN A COFFEE SHOP.

In a coffee shop
at the back
with her black laptop
dark haired

in glasses
a studious dame
taps away then pauses
stares then bites

a lower lip
Johnny spies her
as he talks to others
he sips his coke

in glass and ice
sees her readjust
her spectacles
someone talks

of the economy
and some fraud
in the City
but Johnny watches

over the shoulder
of another how
the young dame
taps away with

a florid flush of fingers
then stops and smiles
(to herself not him)
he takes in her black top

and black shortish skirt
moderately busted
pretty in a geekish way
he assumes

another talks of
a famous singer dying
Johnny recalls her
(the singer) in her heyday

long since gone
the young dame rises
to go to the WC
in a side passage

but it's occupied
so she walks back
to her seat and sits
in the background

some jazz music plays
cool sax weaves
with sparse piano
the WC is now free

and the young dame
rises again from her seat
to return to the WC
and as she walks past

and down the passageway
seeing her tight
wiggling a*s
has made his day.