aura

the bag boy is tall skinny sexy
the bag boy has great lips dark eyes
nice smooth slighty-sweaty skin
short severe dark hair
long arms and long legs
and long fingers.
he places all groceries into their bags
gently, carefully; no bags too full;
nothing on top of the bread;
nothing on top of the eggs;
he is always very gentle.
he is always very attentive. he is always very careful.
though none of the customers has ever had sex with
him, and most likely none ever will, they all just quietly know
that
the tall skinny dark-haired bag boy
is great in bed.  they know
he is fantastic having sex. they know
he moans softly and appealingly, almost
apologetically, when he cums, which
is often.
customers, all of them,
gay, straight, male female
bi trans etc., simply sense
these things about him: his
sweet sexual nature, about him there is an
innocent and innate sense of sex; they have never
experienced the deft softness of his tight little
hip-thrusts right before he
spurts his cum; and yet,
customers
simply know what they know.
they go home quietly
and reverently, remembering
that sweet sad-eyed hopelessly
sexual tall skinny
bag boy with the really dark hair.

--Carl Miller Daniels (This poem appeared in Nerve Cowboy, Number 20, Fall 2005.)