Don'T You Feel My Leg Poem by gershon hepner

“Oh, don’t you feel my leg, ” she said,
she wanted me to beg.
I wasn’t asking from her head,
so I decided I would egg
her on, and touched her just above
one knee, which made her smile:
“If you are wanting to make love,
just hang around a while,
and I will show you other parts
of me that you can touch, ”
she said. She’s now my queen of hearts,
and doesn’t both much
with don’ts, like “don’t you feel my leg, ”
more often it’s her do’s
that tell me that I needn’t beg
for her to shake my blues.
She hopes that I will have what she
is having every time
we get together, fancy free,
for feeling is no crime.

Inspired by the lyrics of a song by Van Morrison that was one of the favorites of Estelle Reiner, the jazz singer widow of Carl Reiner, who died at the age of 94 yesterday. Her most famous line is: in the deli scene of 'When Harry Met Sally' when she reacted to Meg Ryan's character, who was faking orgasm, by saying, “I'll have what she's having.”

10/30/08