Party Dress
Larry S. Lafferty
We can go to that party
If you promise we can get drunk.
Promise that I don’t have to talk
To that idiot when he wants to talk
Politics. Promise I can hit the fourth
Asshole who stares down your blouse.
I can go if you tell me that.
Your friends hate me but I can deal,
As long as you hang with me.
Wear that blue party dress I like.
I can be the person you want
For at least ninety minutes,
Then I go back to being me.
So that’s your choice really.
It’s honest, right?
If you push past the two hour mark,
The blame drifts to you.
Just tell me what happens later,
Like always.
Ends of nights never change.
We have a history, right?
Too much just to throw away.
Look, I’ll try extra hard tonight,
You’ll be proud.
We’re past all that other stuff.
Anyway,
If you get this message,
Just call me at home, I’ll be here.
And forget all those other messages
I left,
I was just fooling around.
Call me.