By chris
Submitted by chris
Date: 2002 Jan 20
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cougars

four a.m.
and we're still awake
you reading jane in bed and
me smoking my reds
researching cougars
in new mexico
and studying maps
planning
forever planning
our great escape
one month and two weeks
away

you say i talk too much
and your profane
pet names
for me are legion
by now
and when we fight
it's woody-allen-movie-
serious
(hardly sitcom-lite)
our exchanges
make me delirious
but the thing is
you feel like home
and the love
goes deep
my god my girl--
nothing's perfect
everything's
right

you've heard this before
it's what i said
earlier
while you were sitting
at the table painting
and another day in paradise
had just ended
on the tv--
one character dead
in a motel room
one escaping through a
cornfield
lost
but quite alive