Pickup Lines And Lipstick Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Sometimes while delivering pizzas in
Gainesville, random girls would ask me
To pick them up and take them with me
Dressed up to go dancing with
Men they did not know- this, they said,
Was their best chance to find a husband
Who would love them and drive them
Places for the rest of their lives.
I told them to hop in and then I drove
Off campus with them. They sometimes
Would tell me they weren’t wearing any
Panties, and then they would ask for a
Slice of pizza, please,
I never argued,
And, applying my foot to the gas,
All I needed was a pair of frosted
Shades and a hard on
And I was a NASCAR driver
Making my qualifying loops around
The college,
Where women came out of their
Apartments wearing nothing but their
Pickup lines
And lipstick.