Infidelity

Head buzzing with stifling heat and vodka

Smoke inflates my lungs like an invisible corset

The leather clad Adonis emerges from the haze

Touching my arm with an 1000 volt shock

I open and close my mouth like a goldfish

Awestruck by the aphrodisiac smell of brill cream

His warm hands smell of sweet tobacco and sweat

And his taste is sugared almonds and vodka

My veins exploding with adrenalin, my stomach a rollercoaster

A voice in my ear whispers, ‘His fiancee’s coming’

A squeeze, from the hand holding mine, pulls me from behind the pillar

‘Are you ok?’

I look back into those trusting sea green eyes

And say, ‘Yeh… get me another vodka?’