Talk to me
the way you do
on Sunday morning
the lingering
of Saturday night
a flame in your
eyes
SMG
"When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat".......................................Charles Bukowski
Talk to me
the way you do
on Sunday morning
the lingering
of Saturday night
a flame in your
eyes
SMG
Jordaan
I was standing on a bridge over the Prinsengracht canal
in the
disconnected calm of three joints from a coffee bar
and the cool
predawn air. The click of Rembrandt’s footsteps
still echo down
the cobbles at this hour-- Once, long ago,
I dreamt of the
scene, this moment, fog tickling across
the warm canal
water. I thought back to the person I was
when that dream
was formed, and I realized that I missed him.
He was young and
idealistic, so unafraid, with a swagger
that could only come
from hubris and ignorance.
The damp morning air
sat on the shoulders of my jacket
and I smiled as I watched
a young Dutch couple fend off
the chilly dark,
oblivious to the painter and me as we took it all in.
The distance
between that boy and the man that I would become
seems so much
greater than the twenty-five years it took to travel.
That boy’s dreams have
turned into my sad reminiscence,
a longing for that
time before disbelief and defeat; the un-jaded
days of wonder
lost along the way. I wanted to see Amsterdam
before I died; I
realize now that it’s too late.
SMG
Sexual Politics
Fair azure eyes
encant,
oh, how she does
enchant.
my heart doth
dance,
in sublime hypnotic
trance,
His angry eyes
askant,
fearing I shall
supplant,
and her love
enhance,
if she be mine per
chance.
Vainly does he
forestall,
as I endeavor to
enthrall.
SMG
Alcatraz
The words,
etched on the cell wall
a lifetime ago, contained a truth
wrought by pain and loss.
“No one is innocent”
As I thought about the author
I watched the tourists,
oblivious of their own guilt,
pass hurriedly, never noticing
the crude engraving.
SMG
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