flights of fancy

the girl in the book shop
looked at me
as if she loved me
when i bought the history book

I thought she might
try to trace me
via my card
and turn up on my
doorstep one day

later
in a tewkesbury pub
i scratched a spot
on my nose
and the blood flowed
causing a hasty exit

i sat in a nearby hotel bar
listening to a drunken cornish girl
tell tales to her boss
about sex with her
mother's boyfriend
and how her mother caught them
at it

she said she was getting back at
her mother
for walking out on her dad
the boyfriend
turned out out to be a violent
stalker

this was all better that the
novel i was reading

she said she wanted to be
treated like a princess but
was told she was ugly
and no one else would want her

this all deserved to be on
trisha

I wanted to hold her
and tell her she was beautiful
but thought
she might be having
a flight of fantasy