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The Girl Next Door

Ralph Monday

She is a sweet little number, demure, shy,
the kind of girl to take home to momma.
Face scrubbed and sparkling as the bottom
of an aluminum pan that she knows how
to use.

            That girl.

Red cashmere sweater, modest little skirt,
books clutched to her torpedoed bra bosom,
her smile turned upward, adoringly, to the
big guy’s gaze. She, of course, is the myth
that men went to war for.

            That girl.

Born as propaganda in World War II,
this girl is all things American.
A homebody cooking and cleaning like
the rise and fall of the tides.
Sweet, nurturing, understands the man’s
needs, and follows through like a baseball
pitcher smoking a fastball over home plate.

            That girl.

Becky Thatcher is her grandmother, Emily Webb
her sister, Debbie Reynolds a distant cousin.
She is a cheerleader, perfect in her chants,
pom poms twirling like airplane propellers.
She never kisses on the first date, children and
animals love her, sings like an angel in the
church choir.

            That girl.

Then the inner city guy asks whose neighborhood?
No white picket fences here, eternally green lawns
sprouting My Three Sons wholesomeness.
He sees the drug addict, railroad tracks on her arms,
stringing crazy people into and out of her apartment.

            That girl.

Working Latino girls spending 100 hours a week in
the local motel to send money home, a young Santeria
priestess hiding chickens in the alley, a chick busted
5 times for burglary.

            Those girls.

Nobody wants them, only their bodies to use for a time
like the latest hit single.
The working girl next door selling pussy to buy the next hit.

            Those girls.

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