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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets
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To: Rambi who wrote (1936)3/27/2000 11:44:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir   of 2095
 
Stubborn Kisses
Tess Gallagher

This kiss won't ride in a car
even with you
in the back seat looking dangerous
as mink. It insists
on running alongside the window
like a piece of the scenery
that won't give you up.

See that splatter, right
where you thought for a moment
it was beautiful? Insects
die over and over
just to prove the sky
is lived-in like this heart
for which I have been given
an inferior sign.

Soon you'll get tired, worrying
about the car running over
my feet, worrying
for the child in me
that's attracting
all these mothers
like a bad parade. You'll
tell the driver to stop
and let you out.

I'll let you
out. I'll stop
and let you out.
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