Maxine’s Blues
She is searching for a loving dude, the single one who will understand
what she offers through the information portals of life,
a man who will solace her when the close captioning glitches out
and she fails to be invited to the hottest conference calls of the summer
A gentleman who will support her dream of becoming the number one
developer of podcast queens, and a postmodern matriarch,
which is why she is always surveying the scene for someone
who can parlay a bilingual hookup into sensual feelings and attachments
Tonight, she lives unsatisfied at a level only a neglected wife knows,
even though she promises she is completely non-espoused.
Oh, where is the man for her? She laments over a future dreamboat
who will bring above average lovemaking in the meantime before death
Postscript: she admits she thinks I am the milk and honey of her crusade,
a solution who will do her heart and bank account favors,
but only if I trade her expired valentines for some maiden names,
saving her from this purgatory where her love songs are marked as spam

Ben Nardolilli is currently an MFA candidate at Long Island University. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, SLAB, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, The Northampton Review, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, The Minetta Review, and Yes Poetry. Follow his publishing journey at http://mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.