The Other Kiss

A beautiful girl he had been seeing,

stood up at the restaurant table in front of him,

leaned over, clasped his face between her hands

and gave him a long kiss on the mouth in front of

no less than sixty Other restaurant patrons.

She then sat down and confessed that she

couldn’t wait to finish dinner so they could go home and

She could drain him of his manly fluids.

He would never call it making love but it

was sure as hell making something worth remembering

When old age takes up residence in ones bones.

Derek Earl Houghton