THE GUY WITH THE FEET
You're a seventeen year old country boy
and your girlfriend tells you
she cheated on you.
Some guy from Pekin felt her up
at a party.
Some big shot city kid, a senior.
But here’s the catch:
he felt her up with his feet,
not his hands.
For some reason this seems worse.
The worst part about it is
you can see she's not sorry.
The guy with the feet
is an artist or something.
It eats away at you:
a stranger's dirty toes
on her clean white breasts.
Your jealousy engorges both of you.
Promises are administered
between kisses
and pretty soon you are in the backyard—
boots planted firmly on the ground—
fucking her in the blind spot
between the mobile home
and the Tuff shed.
Mather Schneider is a 40 year old cab driver from Tucson, Arizona. He is happily married to a sexy Mexican woman. His poetry and prose have appeared in the small press since 1993. He has one full length book out by Interior Noise Press called Drought Resistant Strain and another full length coming in the spring of 2011 from New York Quarterly Press.
