Proposals
How is that other girls got asked
not once? Not seriously, I mean.
serious mean? So much laughter, so many drinks, a dance
each weekend night, all because the boys we dated
So might we. General Dewitt prepared us all for that:
any night, he said, as they had
that dawn at Pearl Harbor. Zeeeeooom—boom—
and nothing more. But who could believe it?
“Wait a minute,” Carley said. “You mean he
wasn’t the first guy to ask you?”
The first who meant it, I said. No girl
over fourteen made it through World War II in a port town
some sailor, leaning from a deck as the ship
pulled out, yelling, “Hey! You in the red hat! Yeah, you!
When I get back, let’s get hitched!” Or a soldier, leaning a bit too heavily
on your neck during the last dance, whispering,
“We move well together.” If you said just, “Mmm-hmmm,” he’d say,
“I know a chapel stays open all night.”
Or even, between one lift and the next on the dance floor,
“Hey, you’re good! We should oughta get married!”
But if you laughed the right way, shrugging it off,
I became an expert at that laugh. I left before
the last dance. I never went out with a guy
the night before he shipped out. No last dates, for me.
at the hospital. They took all I had to give
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