you told me it didn’t
much matter
That cows could only
go upstairs
and not down
and that it takes more muscles to frown
than to smile
and that an earthquake didn’t mean you weren’t
OK
but that when the tsunami
came
things might be different
I liked your long hair
even though you didn’t care
that I was leaving
actually that was last time
this time it was your turn
you didn’t have direction
you only knew how to drive automatic
we were stuck in manual!
But once we got the kinks ironed out
it was quite a drive
You and your buddy slept in the back
I didn’t have the heart to wake you but
FUCK what a view
The kind that could have changed things
It did for me
Only invisibly
Isn’t that the shame?
The things that go unnoticed
Only when you put up a mirror can you see the writing
backwards,
forwards
So I looked backwards
and pushed you forward
To a destiny
I wouldn’t
or couldn’t
be there to see you finish.
just because you drink wine
doesn’t mean that your fine
or that you know how to say live
when you die every day
right in front of your mother
but you don’t mind
and neither do i
because you could see
i mean feel
that a hearst was more than going between here
and there
and that a cliff down by the river
was a sea stronger than pickled cabbage
or sour dough
or stuffed potato
it was a boy once turned man
and a woman once turned back
and back is where we backtrack into
into me and you
sept 10
Goodbye Beantown
Didn’t you think Iraq was kind of weird?
at least the timing of it.
You visit me only to visit her
only to get a mouthful
only to see that I
could be sort of embarrassed
by the authenticity of her honey and nuts
and that the way she asked for her lighter back
made me want to keep it.
And what about the children?
you saw something in them
and they saw something in me
a brown skin that was kind of sort of like a gold bronze you found in the desert
walking past
you walk like us
but talk like her
you knew they couldn’t play basketball
so you asked them anyhow
how kindly they refuse
to bounce balls that even St Augustine wouldn’t dare
you waited
and I came around
that ocean wind was brutal
but it cooled them off
not us though
we had to float around a while
hold me till it’s warm again
you said
Found a ukulele and recorded this song.
“For Freddie and Effy”
cause I am a dork.
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