Hoping To Be Grandfathered In

Hoping to be grandfathered in,

I study the lovely young prostitute.

She eyes me back, mistrustful but greedy,

says something to me in Asian English

I don’t understand.

I say I want sex, a woman, her,

touch her bare shoulder to show.

She says something else in Asian English.

This time I catch forty and sixty dollars

I know will be a hundred inside,

but even so, a terrific bargain

for one who might be my granddaughter.