Hopefully, she says to me as I twist my legs with hers, and I don’t feel older now, but I act the part, assured that movements of gravity have given me good looks, and a talking tongue to lie with in the places that they hurt. I don’t plan on leaving town tonight, but I still feel the pull of the old sirens and the liquor, the hypnotized old bones. And my stinging wit compliments the way she avoids repose –
if I make you a new body babe, there is nothing more that I can do, I am not a God in this room or a romantic across the hall – I sting my poems with obscenities and I memorize old songs.
Of the movement of your body and your nervous energy, I want to write a sonnet, babe, but I only get glimpses of cigarette ash on the bedroom floor and scattered writings that mean so very much to you, you’ll always be secret. And when I am alone sometimes and I cannot sleep, I write you a poem and open my body, and pick out the important parts – they are all for you, you never make me tired, you are beautiful in this room
where the light settles on dusty books and we read to eachother, and categorize the world: everything’s how I want it, but I still feel sad. My friends twist their batteries –
we all play and act. We all play and act – we must so we won’t feel sad. We all play and act for eachother sometimes, but mostly for ourselves – we all read a line of biography, and I become the rehab kid, and I am never angry, I am only vehement that we all play play and act. We must so we won’t feel sad.
We must so we won’t collapse.
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