Saturday, December 28, 2013
Strategic Living, if Fatal
Hurting as Part and Parcel
-I broke it off with acid finality, having, too, a feeling for him:
that I couldn't humiliate him one more time.
-And he...?
-Stopped trying with my sex. Turned off.
-Settled in with the other?
-That'd require too much verve. Just...licks his wounds.
-And you?
-A dozen have smiled their way in, and cried their way out.
-Real femme fatale!
-I carry that card.
-And where has all of it gotten you?
-Exactly nowhere.
-You're supposed to add: But it's been fun!
-The taste lingers much too bitterly for that.
-The Sad Connoisseur of Love?
-Ditch the sad part. That’s for suckers. Realistic, more like.
Labels: Fatal Woman, femme fatale, relationships, sex
