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