April is National Poetry Month! Here is another Matthew Van Der Boot inspired poem.
Jesse’s Girl (not that one by Rick Springfield)
She’s quiet for so long you
suspect she’s fallen asleep.
The night air is cool against
your face and you breathe it in,
slowly filling your lungs with the sweet,
earthy smell of the damp grass,
the woody-tang of the citrus trees,
and the flowery warmth of this girl
pressed softly against you.
You look across the dimly lit lawn
at the people gathered around the keg,
at the heads and shoulders crowded
together in the kitchen, and at the bodies
shifting about inside the house,
and wonder how long it will take him
to find you out here and
beat the living shit out of you.
Inspired by Van Der Boot 1983, Episode 40: “Some Kind of Suicide Mission”