More Cherche les Broads!

Sharing Stories

October 17, 2022 at 2:26 p.m.

Welcoming Smile

...by Charles N. Inge

More Cherche les Broads!

It was time to actively age.
No, Mon Dieu!
Inside a walker!

Strut my stuff like a Bouvier des Flandres.
In dashing clothes appropriate for me (not you).

Smiling as if I had five dollars
to spend on a femme’s hem to collar.

And count her bright teeth that I’ll see
When she flashes a generous smile at me.

Charles N. Inge is a Lynden, Washington resident and frequent writer for Northwest Prime Time. This is the rest of his tempting poem “Cherche les Broads.”

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