deception

Dorothy Summers

 

 

heat bathes my body

i'm a short, skinny

16-year-old in pigtails and bows.

i see a stranger dressed in a suit and tie.

i smile and he grins back.

i move on and pay for a ticket

to enter a cooled theater.

the movie credits are rolling

as i take a seat.

i feel the jerking motion of a chair

next to mine.

but i'm staring at stars on the screen.

maybe 20 minutes pass and i feel

a stroking on my thigh.

his body lurches as my razor nails

dig into his hand.

his face turns toward me,

illuminated by the light

from the reel room.

i jump up and rush

away from him,

the man

who smiled at me

in the sun.


 

 

Copyright 2007 by the Tipton Poetry Journal.

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