Maidenhair Mantra by Lyle Berry

And it all began
when I first caught a glimpse -
Brillo pad kinky
and deliriously mysterious
neighbor lady
bent over her laundry basket
sans the prerequisite pantaloons.
A marvelous experience
that thrilled me to no end
and I knew I had to
touch one and be involved
in some special explorations
of the unknown kind
and seek the scary
but intriguing realm
of sexual endeavors
with a real woman and
not my friend’s little sister.
Just curious pre-pubescents
not perverts
who didn’t see the harm
she’s pro’ly okay now
(fifty years later about 52
or so) and no worse for the wear
no memory of anything at all
of two dumb boys oggling her
hairless tush
to plague her to neurosis.

So at 13, the girl next door
seduces me the day after
Halloween without my little bro
or sweaty devil mask
pillowcase offering
of candy corns and lime suckers
in a heap of dustbunnies
under the bed in her room
while she puts my hand
there and yeah, it’s nice
but I blush scarlet.

Years fly, a swabby
randy to go again
and this San Juan ghetto girl
(from Cuba she says)
lures me to a no-tell.hotel
and pulls her dress over her head
eyes drawn to the spot of course
and it’s nicer than the washerwoman
or the girl next door
and
as I vividly recall
scented with magnolias.
So I drop my
bellbottoms
and about twenty bucks
on a dingy mattress
to tell her I love her noshit
and she loves me too
of course and it’s
another fix that leads
to that life-long
standing
addiction.

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