Ding Dong--------Ava Calling

It was a summer day in August, 1963, and I was hanging at my favorite pool;

I was looking for a date that night, a girl I thought was really cool!

Two months before, I had broken up, with my longtime steady girl;

And was dating like a man possessed, to again give love a whirl!

All at once a girl walked in, who fit my every taste;

She was tall and thin and beautiful, with hair well past her waist!

I rushed as fast as my feet would go, to reach her lovely side!

“I saw you come in and I love your hair”, were the first words that I cried!

She smiled at me as my knees grew weak, and said “Thank you very much”;

I said “My name is Larry, what is yours”, she said “Ava”, our fingers touched!

She said she was visiting her Uncle and Aunt, from Brooklyn New York State;

We stayed together the whole day long, and for that night we made a date!

I picked her up and when I opened the door, to let her into my car;

She slid all the way over to the driver’s side, from me, not very far!

When we arrived at the movie I let her out, her arm slid around my side;

I did the same feeling her lovely hair, for it was down and now was untied!

After the movie we went to my favorite hang, for burgers and some fries;

I could tell my buddies loved how she looked, I saw their riveted eyes!

After that we went to go park, we cuddled and we gently kissed;

She rekindled flames in my atrophied heart, feelings I long had so missed!

She was staying in town for only ten days, and every one we two shared;

We had so much in common, that both of us loved, so perfectly were we both paired!

There was only one small problem at hand, it was about her tender young age;

For I had just turned nineteen years old, her fifteenth soon on the page!

Yet she had an IQ unbelievably high, it was one hundred and seventy three;

I thought this girl is so damn smart, she could join Mensa and be a member with me!

But even though her age was so young, she was mature well beyond her years;

She was erudite and very urbane, therefore she allayed all of my fears!

By our third night together we talked of our love, our pulse counts were way off the charts;

Saying goodbye at the end of the night, was breaking both of our hearts!

So we started thinking about running away, and never to part again;

Dangerous thoughts for two love struck kids, but we were not thinking clearly right then!

Each day that came closer to her going back home, she wept, did not want to leave;

Nor did I myself want her to go, for I knew I would too, sadly grieve!

Our minds told us eloping was not going to be, but our hearts begged for us, it to do;

We became so morose, emotionally wrought, we were caught in a “Catch 22”!

We finally decided to follow our brains, she had to return to her home;

But we would write to each other every day, long letters, but more like tomes!

I also promised I’d drive to New York, within the next thirty days;

This would give us some time to see how we felt, while we were so far away!

And just like I vowed I came to her town, to be again at her side;

But as these sad stories usually end, something in both had since died!

The fantasies we shared for those wild ten days, had become a reality check;

Our senses now had fully returned, we knew our lives we nearly had wrecked!

With tears falling down we held very close, and promised to write once a week;

Then maybe when she became eighteen, we could have the life we had just last month seeked!

But that was the last time I ever saw Ava, the distance and fetching too far;

Yet a few days later, I met a girl named Bunny, who also sat close in my car!

Coming Next

Larry Does The Bunny Hop