It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!
It’s not just him that’s on the phone. He’s deaf, this customer. You should have known. He types to you, TTY, translated request by some young jocular guy. Sounds like snipes what he relays—the pay, full nude, where you will meet the boat Sunday. A birthday gift you said you’d never be—and naked, too; ignoring boundaries. Just topless shifts inside the bar. No outside dances, nude, with caviar. Your boss insisted for her friend, executive, distinguished, lewd “a gentleman—just one hour, nothing more.” But this witness, because it’s TTY, knows how expensive you are to buy.
Kristin Garth is a Pushcart- and Rhysling-nominated sonneteer and a Best of the Net 2020 finalist. She is the author of a short story collection You Don’t Want This (Pink Plastic Press) as well as The Staked (Really Serious Literature) and many more books.
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