Chicagoetry: Smilin' Dave Eigenberg

SMILIN' DAVE EIGENBERG

Even Sex
in the City men

have to be
high-school

freshman
at some point.

My senior year
at Naperville Central,

I finally bagged -
wait -

OK, nearly
bagged

my
dream

sophomore
chick.

I was ruthlessly exercising
Senior

Protocol, every
damn

one of
them.

My dream
was about to be

mine
when Smilin'

Dave Eigenberg,
FRESHMAN, came gayfully

strolling up
the sidewalk . . .

and my dream
ended. Good one, Dave.

Some years
later, pre-Sex

but post-Dennis
Rodman ensemble war movie,

I run into
a

chick at
a

party who still
knew this

woman.
"Wish I'da married

a man like
David! Wish I'da

married a man
like

DAVID . . . " Yeah,
me, too.

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Reader's Guide
1. David Eigenberg.

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J. J. Tindall is the Beachwood's poet-in-residence. He can reached at jjtindall@yahoo.com. Chicagoetry is an exclusive Beachwood collection-in-progress.