Big Carlo's Women

Big Carlo was divorced
but didn’t lack girlfriends.
He sought them in dance halls and pubs
and practised his charisma.
He didn’t go for giggling dolly birds,
but liked them more mature
- in age, as well as in intelligence.
If his body was active,
his brain was even more.
A lot of addresses and phone numbers
were pigeon-holed within
and stored with diligence.
Though he was all for variety,
on one thing he was adamant:
he could not stand ambivalence.
One day, when we met, he looked downhearted;
I asked him why he was feeling sorry.
The lady at the bar, with the Chihuahua,
had seemed the perfect quarry,
he explained, until she revealed
that she had a live-in lover called Cynthia .
What she did next shocked my mate:
she said that if he wanted, he could watch.
No wonder that he was in such a state.
He only recovered after a double Scotch.

© Luigi Pagano 2011