Poetry Thursday

 

Once again, Angel Sammys and Teddys Pawetaton have provided us with a photo for Poetry Thursday,

Lenny has saved all year for a vacation

Working every day cleaning the radio station

He had heard that Tahiti was the new sensation

And a week there would lift him up and be a salvation

 

He bored his coworkers with stories of Tahiti

And bluntly asked if a girl would come with “you’ll love it, sweetie.”

But he was shut down, and management entered into a treaty

Stop asking the girls or someone would beat he.

 

In August he left on his trip

It was his first time on a ship

He’d sit by the pool and to each girl he made a rude quip.

A slap in the face left him with a bloody lip.

 

A week later Lenny returned via plane

His head wrapped, a neck brace on, obviously in pain

His return to work was met with destain

But there were some who wanted him to explain.

 

“Did you leap off a cliff and land on a rock?”

“Did you get hit by a car when not using a crosswalk?”

“Did you get mugged, hit with quarters rolled into a sock?”

He informed them no, he never made his destination, having been assaulted after requesting a long-haired beauty stroke his cock.

 

The object of his affection was a cop from Spokane

Who had served in the mountains of Afghanistan

It dawned on Lenny that what he thought was a woman was a man

When the offended cop pile drove him into a Naugahyde divan.

 

Lenny, who missed his vacation and lost money, was asked if he had learned his lesson.

But he shocked them when he said it was a blessing.

Because the onboard nurse who helped him with his convulsing

They had fallen in love with him when changing his dressing

 

And that is how Lenny found love.

Finally, a woman who thought of him as something that didn’t need to be gotten rid of

She had killed her husband in the Spanish city called Ove.

She needed to change her ID and hide in America until the killing was no longer thought of.

 

Lenny did not care about her past

He knew he could make this love last

His plans to live the rest of  his life with her, he did broadcast

And she prayed that her time with this loser would go fast