Monday, July 7, 2008

Leslie Leffler


There is Leslie graduating SMS in 1960,
getting ready to go out in the big world,
or at least BSA.
I wonder if she is living or dead?
Either way I write this because as I look back on life,
I see how lucky I was to have a cute girl like her
who made me think other girls might like me too
and was my first love, although I did not know it
at the time.
I can still picture her in her red leather coat with matching lipstick
coming down to Dead Man's Hill to go sleigh riding with me.
And later making all the boys from Manhattan Prep jealous
as we flirted and let the buses to high school go by.
Guys there told me how pretty she was when we went to see play Harvey
the large rabbit. And what was better than to have a swimming date
at Tibbets, and the long walk to catch the bus to go home