HIS & HERS: a voyage through the Middle Age Crazies
       

19 - the Relationship------------------------------------------
HIS... AN IMPOSSIBLE AFFAIR

to see a length of time through
to its conclusion
with someone close
can be a ripping business
for the end is always in sight
approaching relentlessly
the clock a death head
ever present -- grinning
a sure winner

from the start
the action and closing lines
memorized
me tearing myself
from the grip of your eyes
stumbling off stage blind and bleeding
clinging to dreams of
brave gypsy children
riding the crest
of the wind whipped now
singing "I am alive and I know it!"

but what I have is mine
and even death
clever as he is
cannot take it from me

it was an impossible affair
and that
was exactly what I loved about it

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HERS... NO BLAME

My house was dark
Alone I ran out of dreams
Fell off the mountain,
Flew away over cities,
Had an affair
The quartered moon poker-red
Burned into the darker depths,
Beyond the Blame.

On this side of sleep
I lie down on my fuzzy white coat
Reading Castaneda
Until the fog filling the canyon looks green.
If it were water
I could swim to another place,
I need to see things differently.
I can't be you, Mama,
Drowning in the berry patch
In the middle years.

Something is dying
Let me out!


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