Au Fait

you like

talking, we should 

talk about 

the subjects

that you’ve spent time 

circumventing 

perhaps

you thought

that because 

I’m an eccentric 

creature of words

I wouldn’t be

alive to the percussion 

of your leg

ticking 

under the table

that my fairytale 

background 

had kept me innocent 

of the tedious hungers  

of the flesh

but you forgot

how many adventuring

princes pressed 

kisses onto 

my sleeping lips,

I’ve been around 

Aladdin and his caves

Sinbad and

his sailing ships

Sinbad the Sailor by H.J. Ford, 1898