everyone remembers the first time they realize how truly fucked up they are
i started unbuttoning my blouse
to show the police officer
the tops of my breasts;
kept unbuttoning to indicate
that i would go all the way
to avoid this altercation
i was young and stupid
doing fifty in a forty
with a tiny baggie of blow
tucked in my pocket
he placed his hand
delicately onto my own
and said “stop speeding honey,
i don’t need to see anything”
in my head, i knew
i’d won the game
gotten out of a ticket
or worse
in my loins, a pathetic,
persistent tingling
in my heart, an empty sadness
that a man
had turned down
seeing my tits