Kiss Me Someone by Karen Shepard

Author:Karen Shepard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tin House Books

There was another poet. A man I went out to drinks with a month after I broke up with my five-year lover. I let him kiss me. I had been pinching myself for a month; I wanted someone else to do it for me.

We kissed and kissed on my living room couch. “Why is it,” he asked, propping himself above me, “that I have all my clothes on and you don’t?”

My dress was unbuttoned. My bra was pushed aside. “I have my clothes on,” I assured him.

Weeks later, after I told him I didn’t think we were a good idea, he told me that if he’d pushed just a little bit more, we would’ve slept together, he could’ve convinced me.

“Oh, really?” I said.

He nodded. He had told our friends this.

He told our friends what?

A near miss. He’d told our friends it was a near miss.

I had wondered why a few days earlier a girlfriend of mine had made a skimming motion, palm past palm, when she passed me in the student lounge.

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