How easy to forget your name

"What does the audience want to hear?"

"Is it exquisite?" someone asks.

Though I can't see the faces beyond the spotlight.

"Like fingers, fresh from picking fruit, smearing their touch
over a body, longed for all afternoon?"

"No. I could hardly write words that sensual." I reply.

"No. This will be much more rough, like chewed fingernails raking
at my skin during love making."

The audience is silent.




"It begins with the name of a girl."