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517. Loud Knocking

I heard loud knocking at my door
Though the clock hadn’t struck two
I would have yelled for them to stop
If I hadn’t been preoccupied with you
I thought they’d leave if I answered not
But they failed to heed my unspoken thought
Instead they pounded even harder then
Although I really wished they’d not
When I become distracted from your thighs
The pounding messing up my attempts at rhythm
I excused myself and drew my gun
Grabbing a handful of bullets and than some
And so it was I yelled for silence
Not that I really thought they’d listen
I ordered the hidden strangers to quit
When they didn’t I just emptied out my gun
I wasn’t amazed to hear the pounding stop
My door now filled with lots of shots
But when I opened that tattered door
I saw more before me than some shattered pots
For at my feet was the pizza man
Covered in red from wounds and topping
How was I to know they delivered so late
If only he had stopped that incessant knocking
It was then that you asked who it was
Saying you had ordered a late night pizza surprise
Of course I lied saying I had scared away some kids
Only a fool interrupts a man between his sweetheart’s thighs


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