Nothing extends a phone <br />call more effectively than <br />saying you're on your way out <br />but she wants to tell you <br />the five things she requires <br />in a man one is intelligence <br />he must have a brain <br />also he must be good a term <br />she likes because it embraces both <br />the opposite of evil and "good in <br />bed" and you admire the way <br />she skillfully maneuvered the <br />conversation to the sex lives <br />of jazz fans who live in the Village <br />and the enduring validity <br />of the Cyrano story and so <br />well you wish you didn't have to go<br /><br />David Lehman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/january-31/
