Sensible Woman Speaks
Give me someone reasonably bright. Not dumb, but neuro-typical enough. Alive, but not too rough with me at night. Upright, but not hooked on R.F.K.! Stuff about my childhood shouldn’t throw him, but his background should be smooth. I want a guy who’s down to hit the gym three times a week; if I’m sick, he’ll soothe my headache with a lullaby, but not keep crooning after I get well. I’ll purse my lips, he’ll kiss me: hot, but not too hot. No grandiose dark poet, high on blank verse. I need a mystic like Godzilla needs a magazine....
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