Pesto

Weekly Dinners with Sister Pip

By: Charles Giuliano - May 26, 2015

Pesto

Neighbors in Cambridge
Before husband Yuri
Sister Pip best friend
Me in the Murder Building
Short walk from
Memorial Drive condo
Weekly dinners
Indian Restaurant in Central Square
Young and Yees on Church Street
He chuckled when seating us
Cheap mediocre Chinese food
Or cooking at home
Not always willing
Too tired
The magic word
Pesto
The clincher
Sure be right over
Then as always after
The meal
Was it good
Did you like it
Was it really good
Wearing her down
Me so needy
Eventually
Reluctant affirmation
Pip
Do Curly
From the Three Stooges
Pleading
Just to shut me up
She did it so divinely
That growling sound
Fingers snapping just right
The final fluttering hand
Then
Oh Pip do it again
Please
Come on do Curly
Big brothers
Can be such a pain
So she got
Married