"Jenny: The Elf´s Maid" by Ashley R. Wynn

Jenny:

The Elf's Maid

A strange, barefoot elf came to me

Grey-eyed and long hair

He spoke poetry

In my mind

In my ears

Gave me books to read

Introduced me to Jack

Showed me quiet places

Under the trestle

By the river

To think

He had more energy than my

ADHD, red-haired brother

We drank a fifth of Old Crow on

Our trek up a Ouachita Mountain

To a vacant, hollow fire tower

We painted skeleton trees,

We vandals

We bad animals

And I fell where there were no stairs

We sat in my room

On my bed on the floor

Got stoned on homegrown tops,

We sat in my roommate's bed

And got drunk on

liquor and looks,

We sat on his

delicious-smelling

Buddha-bed,

Drinking and smoking

Until he was on top

Of me, trying to

Climb inside

I stopped him then

And his girlfriend

Came home

Damn his pointy ears.

I like her.