May Fagg
didn't smoke
Funny - with a name like that?
We shared a house
in Carlton in the Sixties
She was at art school
I was at Uni
We got on
really well.
May had huge tits
and really skinny arms
and long legs
She always wore expensive shoes.
I loved her
shining hair
that swung
when she walked
and shone clean
like the Sunsilk ads.
Her mother died of cancer
when she was still at school
she wouldn't talk about it
Dad lived on a property
in the Western District
rarely visited
pots of money
lonely she said
May loved men
lots of men
very generous
with her slim body
and her huge tits
I feel so mean -
she used to say -
to turn them away
and after all
it doesn't hurt me
to let them stay.
I'd bring her a cup of tea
on Saturday mornings
she'd say -
This is.... sorry,
what was your name again?
I was terribly pissed last night.
Then she met Barry
and disappeared
from the scene
and my life.
She said she loved him
but he knocked her around,
the bastard.
I never saw her again.
Alison Cassidy
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-friend-may-fagg/
