REMEMBERING 1975

A WOMAN AND MAN RECALL A NIGHT IN 1975

Remember that time
we came home
from drinking
at that party

and I was pretty
much sloshed?
she said
and we staggered

along that roadway
and I began singing
that love song
and you joined in

and we were like
a pair of unsober
Sinatra and Ella?
I nodded my head

lying on our bed
waiting for her
to undress
and we had just left

that friend of yours
that one who kept
touching my a*s
and you just laughed

and said he was just
being friendly
and whose face
I slapped and you

made it up to him
saying it was that
kind of week?
sure I remember

I said
scratching my thigh
and as we got to that
junction going off

into town and down
to this place
and I felt the sudden
need to pee

and you said
go do it in that porch
and I said what if
someone sees

and you said
I'll tell them you
were trying it
out for size?

Sure I do
I said
as you stood there
butt naked gazing

at yourself in
the tall-boy mirror
but I didn't I held it in
and walked that

funny walk
with my hands
pushed between my legs
and you said

think of a desert
and no water
and I ran the last few
feet in the door

and just made it in time
and you came in
and shut the door
but I hadn't

I'd peed on the floor?
Yes I recall
I said
but I didn't at all.