AFTER THEY'D GONE 1969

A BOY AND A POLISH GIRL IN UK IN 1969 AND HER PARENTS' HOUSE

Sophia
sneaks Benny
in the house

by the back
in the dark
her parents

are away
for the week
visiting

relatives
in Poland
don't want no

nosey ones
to inform
my parents

she tells him
you want drink?
she asks him

he declines
what we do?
go to bed?

she asks him
are you sure
that it's safe?

sure it is
I see them
get on plane

at airport
she informs
ok then

he replies
she takes him
to her room

(he'd been there
once before
but that time

her parents
returned home
before time)

he looks around
at the bed
at the soft

red carpet
she begins
to undress

you not take
off your clothes?
she asks him

he's unsure
thinking that
the parents

may come back
her old man's
quite stocky

no worry
she tells him
gone Poland

she's naked
standing there
she unzips

the jean's zip
unbuttons
his buttons

he's naked
her fingers
toss across

the dim room
his Y fronts
into bed

she tells him
and they do
the bed's cold

she hugs him
kisses him
her fingers

fingering
his pecker
into life

he feels her
his fingers
touch her thigh

though a crack
in the drawn
pink curtains

he sees stars
in the dark
winter sky.