mail order bride

She's got skin like Peking duck
Glazed in honey
She glows like the sun
Seen through amber
She wears bright nickel jewelry
Wrapped in colorful silk

She's thin and nubile and seven feet tall
And my touch can make her
Wiggle and flex and even fall to pieces

She never says no to a streamside ramble,
and her honey-do list is one word long
"Fish"
She casts out lines ending in tiny barbs
And her taste in men, impeccable

lines by fernando gomez

pic courtesy of the bench of mike shay