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 She asked me If i was married

  I told her " no"
 She liked my t-shirt
 " JESUS IS MY HOMEBOY "
  She looked like
 She had her act together
 She graduated from Central High, 1984
  I graduated from Istrouma, 1985

  We never ran into each other in town

  She told me baton rouge
  Had changed alot while i was gone

 It got more diverse

 But i kept thinking
  About the first words she spoke to me:
 She didn't ask me what i wanted to buy
 She asked me
  " Are you married ?"

  Yesterday, I told Mama
  " if I wasn't married 10 years ago
 What makes you think
  I'd do it now?"

  I love bachelorhood too much

  But i hedge my bets
  By telling mama

  " If it happens, it happens..."

 

-- Erren Geraud Kelly