From And Don’t Come Back, the collection published in 2021.
Covert Flirt Not With Me
you red-haired woman in a pink striped dress
too interested in beer. How can you
lip-curl sneer into my sunglasses
admire your reflected self
and the can of brew you lift to your mouth
and think I don’t see?
5/8/20
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
How dare she?! I don’t like her.
As is so often said, it takes all kind of people to make a world. But…I don’t like her either. Yet this kind of person is fun to imagine and to write about, all right. That’s my revenge.
Oh, yes–you’re so right! 😀
I really enjoyed this scathing pen portrait. You have so vividly captured this character and the interaction.
Thank you. Sometimes I feel like it all just comes out right and this poem is one I like a lot.
FLIRT
sensuous with pink skirt
alert by the flirt
shake and squirt the beer
self hurt by the sneer
lift the can of beer
to woo through and through
Dr Lim, http://www.wonkywizard.wordpress.com
I think I’ve seen that woman except she was a blond!
Yes. She has a lot of different looks!
Sorry the fifth line is not beer, but brew.
Dr.Lim, http://www.wonkywizard.wordpredd.com
I love it! Now I reply:
You were thinking beer / Me? A great big root beer float / Vanilla ice cream and tickle-nose fizz. My brew! / Grab a straw. I’ll share with you.
your treat is too sweet
drink and float on feet
a tweet from White House straw
hollow inside and full of flaw
Thanks Claudia for sharing.
[…] poetry, CONVERT FLIRT NOT WITH ME, with amusement. It was published in her blog on 3rd April 2022, https://claudiamcgill.wordpress.com/2022/04/03/covert-flirt-not-with-me/ Please visit her blog or buy her […]