lookinatawoman

I lookin’ at a woman tonight
I lookin’ at a woman
like she the only woman
in the whole wide world
I lookin’ at a woman
like she a soup bone an’ I
one starvin’ bitch of a hound dog
I lookin’ at a woman tonight
an’ she –
an’ she –

oh, mama, she lookin’ back at me!
she feel my hungry eyes
on her body
all undressin’ her right there
on the dance floor
she know I lookin’ at her
oh, mama, she gone be mad!

I lookin’ at a woman anyhow
figger I best fill up now
fore she take the feast away
but she
but she
just look at me an’ smile
real slow
them teeth a string of pearls
between red silk lips

I lookin’ at a woman ‘cause
I can’t help it, ‘cause
I can’t look away
an’ she
an’ she
shake them hips
an’ my eyes like to pop
right out my head
and she shake them hips again
them great big hips
them soft wide woman-hips
an’ I think my eyes gone roll
right across that floor
and up her tight little dress

I lookin’ at a woman
an’ she lookin’ back at me
with eyes like two black candies
an’ she shake them hips again
oh, mama! I think
I feel the Earth movin’
when she shake them hips
them pretty hips
at me

I lookin’ at a woman
an’ she shake her hips
round as two watermelons
them the hips she shake at me
smooth as two moons
an’ then
she shake back her hair
all done up in braids
like sticks of licorice
an’ when she do that
all them bone beads on the ends
get to chatterin’
an’ I just gotta wonder
what they say about me

I lookin’ at a woman right now
an’ I tell you
I get so hot
I think I gone melt
an’ somebody gone have to
mop this fool dyke up
and carry her home in a bucket
all my girlfriends watchin’ me melt
an’ laughin’ on account of I
usually the big butch dyke
what don’t let nobody
get so close
but

I lookin’ at a woman
an’ the last thing on God’s green earth
I thinkin’ about be my reputation
an’ she shake them hips again
them hips got more swivel
than a whole row of barstools
so’s I go an’ ask somebody her name
an’ somebody tell me
but my brain already melt
an’ sure it just go in one ear
an’ out the other

I lookin’ at a woman
she shake those sugar hips
she wrap that music ‘round her
an’ take it for the ride of its life
an’ somebody ask me
what time it is on my pocketwatch
but all I can think is
ain’t there no roses in here?
all them flowers on all them tables
every one some dumb daisy
white as an angel’s dress
an’ not
one
red
rose
anywhere in sight

I lookin’ at a woman
when the music stop
an’ she shake her hips
one last time
fore she step off the floor
I lookin’ at a woman
when my heart stop when she stop
an’ her name pops back in my head
so’s I try callin’ out to her
but her name
get all tangled up with my breath
an’ she just vanish in the crowd

I lookin’ at a woman still
on account of her bein’ stuck
to my eyes like a leaf on a windshield
so I run outside
an’ I duck ‘round the corner
real quick where I know
there always be a bum
sellin’ flowers at the stoplight
an’ when I get there I see
I done left my purse
back at my table, damn!
but I got a five-dollar bill in my bra
where I always keep it
in case I ever need to call a cab
an’ I buy me one red rose, uh huh
all nestled in baby’s breath and fern
then I stuff my change down
between my tits and run back
only stoppin’ for a minute
to check my looks in the mirror
of a dark shop-window
an’ straighten up my tie
fore I go back in

I lookin’ at a woman
back there on the dance floor
an’ she shake her hips
when I come in
she shake her hips so hard
they like to fall off an’ come
bouncin’ right up to my boots
an’ I see the band looks
kinda tired now
so I sit me down
to wait

I lookin’ at a woman now
red rose tappin’ time ‘gainst my thigh
I gone bide my time
just a bit
soon that band quit playin’
she gone quit dancin’
an’ this time
I
be
ready

Sheela Ardrian