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By chris Date: 2004 Apr 28 Comment on this Work [[2004.04.28.22.45.18674]] |
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at the zoo you get impatient with the crowds and talk to the birds (and they seem to talk back) very much like someone else I've known and I should be alarmed but I'm charmed and gladly take the bait with a smile and an "i'll have a second helping, ma'am" back at your place we talk serious for the second time in two days i try in my way to get you to kick my ass out mention other names other late-night dates questionable dives with any luck i'll barely get out alive but you don't bite you don't make me go you're ridin' this fucker like you're at the rodeo so i get up and look out the window at all that valley below the mountains in their new spring clarity kissed by virga and cotton-puff clouds and know i've been here before and vowed in blood to never return but every hard-won epiphany i unlearn back on the couch kissing your neck one hand lost in the soft of your hair the other seeking the warm center where it all began and then where it all gets blurred again |