IF HE HAD 1961.

[dadio]

Lizbeth got back home
after seeing Benny in town
as he was there
as usual with his mother

Saturday shopping
and he'd gone with her
to the small cafe
in the high street

and they'd talked
and she had placed
her knee against his
under the table

and wished to do
a lot more
but she couldn't
take him home

because her mother
was there all day
and had no where
to take him for sex

even if he would
so on getting back home
her mother said
where have you been?

out shopping
Lizbeth said
her mother studied her
what did you buy then

you have no bags?
nothing didn't see
what I wanted
well I did

but couldn't get it
she gazed at her mother's
sour face
waste of time

going then
you could have
been here helping me
with chores

the mother said
what chores?
Lizbeth said
make your bed

tidy your room
bring down
your soiled linen
and help me

with the polishing
the mother said miserably
Lizbeth sighed
where do I start?

your room for a start
it's in a terrible state
with clothes
on the floor

plate and cup
and the records
just laying there
and the bed unmade

the mother said
so Lizbeth went up
the stairs
poking a tongue

at her mother's back
and entered her bedroom
and went and lay
on the bed

and lay on her back
and thought of Benny
and what it could
have been like

if he had come
and what they could
have done
had he come

she closed her eyes
and pretended
it was his fingers
walking down her thighs

his fingers rubbing
along her skin
she pursed her lips
and imagined his lips

against hers
and blew a kiss
softly and soundlessly
then she pretended

it was his fingers
lifting her blue skirt hem
lifting slowly
his other fingers

touching her
music began
from downstairs
classical stuff

some dame singing
some operatic aria
and her mother's
croaky voice

joining in
making a din
and she paused
his fingers

just as they touched
her Garden of Eve
and opened her eyes
and he had gone

and the dame still singing
with her mother
and she stared
at the ceiling

with a sad
depressing feeling.

[saw]

aah yes, the musings of teens that couldn't care less about cleaning their rooms, when there were important metaphorical places to visit.....like the Garden of Eve......

[creativesoul]

Nice descriptions there

[dadio]

Thank you, Saw & Creative Soul

[justwalt]

very touching

[dadio]

Thank you.