''Contact Rules''.
''All visitors must wear appropriate undergarments
at all times.
On the website, they've misspelled slip to read slop.
She spends a few minutes searching for what a slop is.
She reads it again and realizes it's meant to read slip.
Slop and slip, an accident of language.
A fact that means nothing.
To slip through something as unnoticed as a typo.
Clothing that exposes excessive skins
such as the back, the midriff, shoulders or cleavage
is not allowed.
That time he spent the whole evening staring at her.
Early on before the pettiness of life, he had turned to her
and said, you know what I love most?
Your forehead.
Disruptive visitors will have their visit terminated.
On one drive to see his cousin in Atlanta,
she didn't speak the whole way.
He played the radio a little then turned
that off somewhere around the Daniel Boone National Forest.
He put his hand on her knee, a minor riot inside.
The trees blurring in the rain.
He said the rain was lucky.
She nodded, but really, she thought it just looked like
a storm''.