Poetry Slam by D. B. Shuster

Author:D. B. Shuster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Naughty Bytes

We blew out of town on your bike,

Dreaming of the big lights and a mic.

I thought we’d make it really far,

With just you, me, and my guitar.

We sang a sweet song

Till you did me wrong.

She looked out over the crowd. No one had caught on yet. They were listening politely, attentively, while she laughed inside at her own private joke, a crossover pop charts single parading as high poetry.

Then she looked at him again, and the laughter fell away. He stood, leaning with his elbow on the long counter. The shadow on his jaw had seen more than one five o’clock. She appreciated the scruffy, rebel quality, his longish black hair that curled at his neck and ears, tamed for now but at its essence ready to spring and be wild. He might move quietly in this sea of students and young professionals. He might even pass as one of them, but he wasn’t. In her bones, she felt the intense call of like to like.

Her eyes were drawn to his, an almost electric blue that tickled at her memory. She felt as if she knew him—or his type. Her heart screamed that he was dangerous, but her body craved the thrill, and she somehow knew he could deliver, knew that he, like her, had tasted freedom and wanted more.

Falling into those deep blue eyes, she faltered, just for a moment, as the past crashed against its confines, threatening to surge over the levee in her mind. Pressure built behind her left eye, until she turned away from the internal noise and recited the next verse in droll style, as if it were the finest poetry:

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