A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON'S EVENING

for Dutch


I like all of em,
big, small, fat, thin,
just so long
as they don’t talk
large,
and this one,
he said,
I don’t think nobody’s
ever winked her
ya know what I mean?
I know, I said, go on...
Anyways,
like I was sayin’
I liked what she ordered:
sherry, cream...
and made the bartender
put it in a sherry glass,
and this a hot Wednesday
afternoon, 40 cents,
she’s entitled,
right?
Right, right, what happened?
Nothin’, nothin happened, nothin’
else, I just liked that.

He always told those kind of stories;
if there was a point to them
you had to decide where
it was.


Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 1978