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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1168)12/20/1998 4:34:00 PM
From: flickerful  Respond to of 13018
 
THE LOVER

He waits, and it is not without
a great deal of trouble that he tickles
a nightingale with his guitar.

He would like to cry Andiamo!
but alas! no one has arrived
yet although the dew is perfect

for adieux. How bitterly he beats
his hairy chest! because he is
a man, sitting out an indignity.

The mean moon is like a nasty
little lemon above the ubiquitous
snivelling fir trees, and if there's

a swan within a radius of
twelve square miles let's
throttle it. We, too, are worried.

He is a man like us, erect
in the cold dark night. Silence
handles his guitar as clumsily

as a wet pair of dungarees.
The grass if full of snakespit.
He alone is hot admist the stars.

If no one is racing towards him
down intriguingly hung stairways,
towards the firm lamp of his thighs,

we are indeed in trouble, sprawling
feet upwards to the sun, our faces
growing smaller in the colossal dark.

~ Frank O'Hara ~



To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1168)12/20/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: flickerful  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13018
 
up into the silence the green

up into the silence the green
silence with a white earth in it

you will(kiss me)go

out into the morning the young
morning with a warm world in it

(kiss me)you will go

on into the sunlight the fine
sunlight with a firm day in it

you will go(kiss me

down into your memory and
a memory and memory

i)kiss me(will go)

~ ee cummings ~