Sarah Goodwelles

A friend request popped up

Sarah Goodwelles, a chef from Paris

living in Texas

supposedly

she didn’t look like the others

wasn’t posing coquettishly

seductively

as-good-as-naked-ly

 

Sarah Goodwelles was pleasant faced

wore a dark grey, slightly formal raincoat

and stood awkwardly before a field of tulips

blue as her young eyes

she sent me a message

in sweetly broken English

 

Hi, how are you?

            Do we know each other?

Not soon, but I note you are a writer. I like to reading.

            Me too.

I am from France but live to Texas two years.

            Someday I hope to visit Texas.

Do you like sex?

 

she didn’t look like the others

but she was

she was probably a middle-aged man

like me

sitting somewhere far away

with other middle-aged men or women

trying to get people on the hook

I didn’t mind

money is tight all over

 

Who are you? Who are you really?

            Does it matter?

Maybe not.

 

I closed the laptop and went to bed