The Old Questions

When I asked you to turn off the lights,
you said, Will you show me your leg first?

I heard Rachmaninov through the wall,
a couple making love without prerequisites.

Do you sleep with it on? I forgot
there would be this conversation.

Do you bathe with it on?
I need to rehearse answers to these questions.

Will you take it off in front of me?
I once stepped into a peep show in New Orleans.

Over the door, signs read: Hands off our girls.
Is it all right if I touch it?

I am thinking of a hot bath, a book.
The couple on the other side of the wall laughs.

She has found the backs of his knees.

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