the game is tied with one minute to go

she's on

her third book in the fifty

shades

of

sex trilogy, or is it four

or five

volumes now?

you have to read this, she

says.

it's very very

sexy.

i shake my head no.

i refuse

to involve vegetables

in our 

intimate

relations,

or strike you with a whip,

or chain

you to the bedposts.

what about a blind fold,

she asks,

or how about if i wear

a wig

and leather pants?

maybe, i tell her, but can

it wait.

the game is tied,

and it's the fourth quarter.