ihavebeenfloated

i was reading a volume of bukowski
one day at work
one story really caught my brain
i handed it to the girl
who i was infatuated with
and she read it
and she said,
yeah, it’s good
but not so good that i’d hand it to somebody
and ask them to read it
i knew then
that i would never sleep with her
no matter how badly i wanted to.