CLOWN: OCTOBER by Joe Hilliard

They let her go a week
Before me. Maybe
I should have seen the sign,
Read the tea leaves,
One more ex co-worker.

I'd missed her advances
After a company dinner,
The two of us, swaying
In the parking lot full of
Carnitas and maybe a margarita
And all the tension…

Now she wanted to surprise
Her husband for Halloween
Expand his sexual horizons.

Her words,
He was going to break his male
Cherry on my lips.
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