Jade and the Silent Boy

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Jade had gorgeous eyes

You might think that her eyes were green--

You would be wrong

Jade’s eyes were brown

Dark as French roast coffee

and just as intense

That girl could hypnotize

with just one glance of those eyes

She once made the local librarian burst into song

while in line at the grocery

and the sanctimonious pastor fall ass over teakettle in love

with a tree squirrel

Just for kicks

Don’t fool yourself;

If she had looked your way

You would have fallen too.

Jade knew exactly what she wanted

Two things:

to escape her backasswards small town suffocation

and she wanted the silent boy with the motorcycle

The silent boy got his name some years ago

After a day of speaking ugly about neighbors and kin

His mama told him, “If you don’t have anything nice to say,

don’t say anything at all.”

The boy never said another word.

The silent boy was an immovable object

Jade was an irresistible force

It’s been said

that when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object

Some folks find magic

Some find madness

and some find God

Jade and the silent boy found each other

They locked eyes just briefly

Quicker than a ladybug’s sneeze

but it was enough

The silent boy said

“You have gorgeous eyes.”

Jade smiled, blushed, and looked away

Down at his leather boots

Then Jade and the silent boy

Climbed onto his motorcycle

and raced up the highway out of town.

They never looked back.

submitted for Poets United, Verse First, Women