Monica Lewinsky
smoking
but not inhaling
that urge to fit in
we felt the same
I knew.
conjugate the verb: to suck
he sucks
(present absence)
I sucked
(past tense)
but I didn’t swallow
(excuses);
the voyeurs lap it up.
* Myfanwy Fox always read but only recently dared write; now she wonders how she lived before.