2 Poems by
David Pishnery
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jobs
most people don't realize
not every sailor or marine
gets laid whenever they want to.
some resort to stroke magazines
or standing around school yards
watching adolestent panties.
some take the trip into the city from the base
and walk around the seediest parts of town
looking for the best hotel for the money
to score a piece of ass.
the doorman knows what you want
it's just a question of how much.
the old elevator creaks up to the top floor
giving you plenty of time to chicken out
or satisfy that itch you have been
carrying since Spain or the Islands.
they never look like you imagine them,
some skinny and ugly or fat and beautiful -
working women and men
who watch the clock just like you do.
they take your dick in their hands and wash it first
with a soft old rag with plenty of soap -
making small talk about family
or girlfriends or the daily news.
then the money comes out
and it's down to business.
sometimes she is dry - your fault -
but sometimes if you laid the groundwork
out right it's a tight slippery 15 minutes
with no apologies or looking back -
just a dying to get out of there
and finding the first bus back to base
to wash off her stink and your stink.
this is better than wrestling
with the girls at the bars who want love
or want you to buy beer all night
just to be dumped at midnight
for the local football hero
or working stiff just off from his shit job.
some jobs are like that.
some jobs fuck you over.
some jobs fuck with your mind but
some are just fucking.
soft-weve scott's bathroom tissue
I wonder where the media
gets this idea
that a visit to the bathroom
should be like floating on a cloud?
long ago I had to take a drunken ex-fiancée
up to the crapper the last night
on leave from boot camp
first the jeans
then the yellow panties
I sat her on the pot
steadying her with one hand
and myself with the other
then I had to wipe both ends
reverse the clothing routine
and carry her down to bed.
she was going to
sleep alone that night
there comes a time
in a relationship
when enough is enough
I could only take so much shit
next morning
she couldn't remember
the episode with the crapper
I saw her
on the street not long ago
badly dressed and
out there in space
she wasn't someplace
I wanted to be
they were nice
yellow panties though
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