how would you have me touch you?

This poem is a killer at public readings. And I hear it works pretty damn well in private readings, too.

how would you have me touch you?

how would you have me touch you?
how soon? how oft? how soft?
would you have me lay back on the bed
and let you rise, aloft?

would you ask I play seduction
so that you can play ingenue?
or would you like to take the lead
and teach me a thing or two?

shall I wine and dine and sweep you
off you feet and on your back?
or shall this be a blue jeans thing
or a tryst of a darker tack?

may it be to your great pleasure
if I insist your essence kissed,
that I may wait to penetrate
until you have found your bliss?

and would you let me hold you
for the night, or for a while,
and feel the heat between us
and taste the comfort of my smile?

how would you have me touch you?
how soon? how oft? how soft?
would you have me lay back on the bed
and let you rise, aloft?


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.