Different Slants

Seeing the World from a New Angle

Chilled Baskin-Robbins Beauty Makes Me Hot!!!…………by Robert M. Katzman

Filed under: Gritty Katzman Chicago Stories,Hyde Park (Chicago),Jewish Themes,Love and Romance,subtle erotica — Bob at 4:50 am on Wednesday, April 18, 2012

by Robert M. Katzman © 4/17/12

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Spring 1966

Sixteen

Need a job

Wandering hot streets

I spy

Baskin-Robins!

A sign:

Help Wanted

Mandarin Chocolate Sherbet

Mint Chocolate Chip

Dark Chocolate

Jesus!!!

Panting

I chance it

Walk in

And see her

An older woman

Twenty-two

Short

Big brown eyes

Built

Name tag: Miriam

Ok

They don’t have to pay me

She sits at this little desk

Nice legs

There’s a line

Bunch a mopes

I can do this

I inhale the Chocolate

Failure?

Not an option

My competition

Peels off

Crash and Burn

She’s tough

Yet soft red lips

Soft everything

My turn

She’s on the phone

Muttering angrily

About Pierre

Her

“God-damned

French-Canadian

Catholic husband”

Leaving her

Again

To clean up the

Damn Freezers

Alone

At night

Her

Beautiful face

Steaming

Her

Stunning chest

Heaving

Hell

I’ll pay her

To

Work here

Wait a minute!

Her

God-damned

French-Canadian

Catholic

Husband?

Then I see it:

The shining

Gold

Jewish Star

Embracing

Her

Fine

Smooth

Kissable

Neck

An idea looms

This is War

She likes my application

Asks me:

When can I start?

All the others said:

Right now!

I said:

Sorry, Ma’am

Not until

After

Passover

She looks at my

Dark eyes

Dark hair

Olive skin

She senses:

Revenge!

I get the job

God Bless the Catholics!

I get

To clean out the

Big Freezers

All

Alone

With

Miss Jewish

Double-Scoop

Ice Cream Queen

1966

After her store closes

Every Night

We get

Really cold

We get

All wet

Her tight uniform

Unbuttoned

Just enough

Her sweet sweat

Trickling

Down

Down

Down

I’m dying

And still

Still!

I even get

Paid

To do this!

At night

Exhausted

I fall into bed

Dreaming

As always

of this:

Giant

Sugar

Ice cream cone

Waves

Of

Creamy white

Liquid Marshmallow

Over-Flowing

 the

Rounded edges

Dark Chocolate

Sprinkles

Raining from the Sky

And

Always

Seductively waiting

Within it

Big brown eyes

Staring up at me

Arms outstretched

Soft red lips smiling

Is

Miriam

Publishing News! 

Bob Katzman’s two new true Chicago books are now for sale, from him!
Vol. One: A Savage Heart and Vol. Two: Fighting Words

Gritty, violent, friendship, classic American entrepreneurship love, death, heartbreak and the real dirt about surviving in a completely corrupt major city under the Chicago Machine. More history and about one man’s life than a person may imagine.

Please visit my new website: https://www.dontgoquietlypress.com
If a person doesn’t want to use PayPaI, I also have a PO Box & I ship anywhere in America.

Send me a money order with your return and contact info.
I will get your books to you within ten days.
Here’s complete information on how to buy my books:

Vol 1: A Savage Heart and Vol. 2: Fighting Words
My books weigh almost 2 pounds each, with about 525 pages each and there are a total together of 79 stories and story/poems.

Robert M. Katzman
Don’t Go Quietly Press
PO Box 44287
Racine, Wis. 53404-9998  (262)752-3333, 8AM–7PM

Books cost $29.95 each, plus shipping

For: (1)$3.95; (2)$5.95; (3)$7.95; (4)$8.95 (5)$9.95;(6) $10.95

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I am also for hire if anyone wants me to read my work and answer questions in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. Schools should call me for quantity discounts for 30 or more books. Also: businesses, bookstores, private organizations or churches and so on.

My Fighting Words Publishing Co. four original books, published between 2004 and 2007 are now out-of-print. I still have some left and will periodically offer them for sale on my new website.

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6 Comments »

Comment by J Steve Adler

April 18, 2012 @ 7:56 am

Not very satisfying, but very good. Imagery is superb! Keep the dreams alive.

Comment by bruce and jokie

April 18, 2012 @ 9:52 am

you really pile on the scoops!

Comment by Gargi

April 18, 2012 @ 4:01 pm

Geez Bob, I’m surprised you ever got ANY work done in your many jobs over the years!

;~}

It’s a breezy poem; cleverly construed. And yes, I agree with J…above: the imagery is over-the-top. Who said truth is boring? At least, not your truth….does truth become more richly concentrated with each passing year, one has to wonder in reading this memory-byte (or should I say, lick) of your life from the sixties.

Comment by Brad Dechter

August 4, 2018 @ 5:42 am

Sweet story Bob. Made me hungry for mounds of ice cream (Wink.)

Comment by Bob

August 5, 2018 @ 5:41 am

Miriam, probably long divorced, would be 74 today. Difficult to imagine.
B

Comment by brad dechter

November 29, 2019 @ 3:48 pm

I want that job! Shame I am lactose intolerant!
Brad

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