more angst in wowsville

I had really hoped that things would fall in place and the mild flirtation we shared would eventually allow me to kiss you but instead you went back to your room and i paused, only for a second and saw myself in third person as a movie star in some passionate melodramatic nineteenforties black and white tv-dinner special I walked back slowly fantasizing about how I'd call you Doll and you'd be quite a dish and I'd smoke a cigarette in every scene and when I kissed you you'd throw your leg up -- Lance, circa 1996

Credits

* [How To Kiss from Life Magazine, scanned by X-Ray Delta One](http://flic.kr/p/buRpSc)