We don't even take time No sooner have we made love How good the wine tastes "I'm getting fat," she says,
To come up for air.
We keep our mouths full and busy
Eating bread and cheese
And smooching in between.
Than we are back in the kitchen.
While I chop the hot peppers,
She grins at me
And stirs the shrimp on the stove.
That has run red
Out of a laughing mouth!
Down her chin
And on to her naked tits.
Turning this way and that way
Before the mirror.
"I'm crazy about her shrimp!'
I shout to the gods above.
- Charles Simic, The Voice at 3:00 A.M. : Selected Late and New Poems, 2003
(Thanks, Stacey!)










