After a mighty fine rogering
I think about that fellow, Roger.
Peter made out all right, and Dick.
How did they luck out so much more
than John?
I start to think about my part in it all.
I gave him the old Belinda? Nope.
(Don’t say old, my inner Cosmo quails.)
It’s got to be a common name.
Not Virginia.
Likewise, Mary, Magdalena.
You are such a Beth! (Not working)
I showed him my Jennifer. Closer?
He got all up in my Ruth and Ester.
Vajayjay is someone afraid to say
vagina. I do like honey pot.
and sugar bowl, as affectionate
pet names. I’m meh on pussy,
that workhorse.
For years I used geography:
Look, you can see all the way to Kansas!
Alternatively, familiar places—
So sorry, the pool is closed.
I’d dish out better with a name,
something with legs. I flashed him my —
Amelia? Still wedded to vanished Earhart.
Besides, we need a name that vibrates,
likes to verb.
We sallied around, all the long afternoon.
That might do. There’s sally and Mustang Sally
both slow and fast. She knows her own mind.
Not too many syllables
and she drives.