the night we met

July 7th it was - to be exact - on

that summer night in Waikiki,

when you sat alone with a friend and I

came in and changed all that - some

nineteen years now - to be exact.

 

why were you there, in that one spot

way in the back? I didn't know where

I was going, just weaving through

the crowded room unmet, until

meeting my future life - all on a

crazy, elated whim with two friends

upstairs who couldn't get in

wearing flip-flops, and they not

minding when I said,

"I'm going in for a few."

 

and in a few moments, after

a number hastily written, I

was gone (oh! delicate chance, indeed!)

but I called the next day and got

through immediately - once I saw

your transposition error in

the phone directory.

 

we'd wait six days more 'til our first

date, our patience rewarded though,

that we would later recount

to friends (with some pride):

"our first date? why it never ended!"

but that's another poem,

most probably a sonnet.

 

 

 

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