<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448542" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Love and Combat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I've had my sip of tainted time, ' she said<br>'wasted hours of questions<br>asking if you love me<br>perched in some Pity Pub<br>on hard benches<br>listening to old country tunes<br>red dress on<br>heart like a fist<br>my best face in the bottom of a glass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet you still had a hold me<br>like grandma's faded crystal<br>you held me in your hands<br>and drank so deep of my youth<br>drained it to the very last drop, <br>spilling lots<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now you back sitting here looking for another sip.<br>Call me stupid<br>but I am gonna let you have it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to see if I taste the same; <br>cause so much of me<br>was taken away with you<br>I need to see if I can get it back.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said<br>'You roped me, hog-tied me, and in 10 seconds I was down<br>to where you my hostage pretty soon ruled me the outlaw<br>and its been that way since I first put my lips out for your sideways kiss, <br>proving that love and combat do mix.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since I left there's been no one else; you ruined me for anything else.'<br> <br>She paused.<br>She looked at him and said 'Are you saying you want to come back? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I'm saying.' he said<br>'I want a taste of those lips like a thirsty man wants water.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said: <br>'You ain't changed. Still got that hunger I like.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Lets do Scotch.' he said wrapping those long bow legs of his around the bar stool, smelling like he smelled, that smell once again invading her memory of the mattress in the flat-bed truck and night time stars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448542" data-title="Love and Combat de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="'I've had my sip of tainted time, ' she said 'wasted hours of questions asking if you love me perched in some Pity Pub on hard benches listening to old country tunes red dress on heart like a fist my best face in the bottom of a glass. And yet yo..."></div> </div> </div>

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