Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Several undated poems from the mid-80s

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Tell me another one
just like last weekend
I'll laugh at it, like I did last weekend.
And you'll think I don't believe you
like I didn't last weekend
but
Jesus
don't let it be true this time

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I  used to be a younger man
with nothing left but time to kill
but now that I'm an older man
the days pass fast
the memories, dragging, swell.

What did you mean? To cause me fear?
I listened to you call me "dear"
and knew within me that you never meant it.
How could you hope to more offend
than write a letter to my friend
and when I asked you, say
"I never sent it." ?

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I don't wait for birth
I don't wait for death
  or pregnancy
  or dinner
  or the Metro
I WAIT FOR

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