just stared
and tilted
to the right
as if to hear
a certain note
too big to fit
the normal way
into my ear.
She wore a dress
that said
Back
in the back,
and Front
over…well…
those, you know
small elevations,
little buds
of late September,
as they hardened
since the end of May.
I went to fiddle then,
eyes down
two fingers up,
the temple being what
there was to know,
somewhere inside
there was the wisdom
of it all,
but I was dumb
and let another
make the call.
two hundred big ones in a paper bag, contents withheldfrom preying eyes, but I had surely been the clownthat day when courage struck and slyly urged…I must explain though, I was poor,and just that week it had emergedthat all those bills, piled on my tablewere overdue and, yes for sure,did bother me, though, quite unableto…
there was no room inside my damaged heartfor any mercy or a whiff of past humanity.I did not use the polished Turkish daggeron him, that would have been revenge,that one is still in place, conveying pain.I’ve longed for years to climb the highest mountain,but never dreamed to watch a human flythere was no sound until…
both arm and wrist of Nana,so thoroughly that she was pleased.Perhaps it was a first, and also signalthat this great pilgrimage wasnearing its own end, (don’t hold your breath) .‘So much incompetence’, she said‘I have been suffering, in my old agefor many months, and ask myselfwhy God has chosen, in his wisdomto throw this pie…
at dawn.You stoodand simply washed,while pale-faced twinsregarded me,who waswell hiddenin the forest’s trees.My heart stood still,fell into silent mode,so deep in lovethat it can neverbe undone.It’s beena thousand dawnsthat I have stoodto see you there.In love but filled with fear.While you,oblivious to me,just stand there,in the icy waters.And simply wash.
Useless for dishes.Goldfish don’t like it.What makes you thinkthat lukewarm kisseswill warm my heartsoothe my soulsmooth my wrinkles,light my smile,feed my ego,make me happyandprolong my life?Well?
You can try the whole process all over againbut you may have passed over, I fear.I don’t know how Obama will run the big show,he’s a trifle too sunburned for me,there is one thing, that I and a lot of folks knowthere is strife in the land of the free.In a country whose people are…
