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From: "deborah russell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: poem "The guy in the cafe"
> Good one...
>
Yes.
>
>>
>>A piece of fiction inspired by, you guessed it,
>>a guy in a cafe. Who looked like the first guy, unfortunately.
>>
>> The guy in the cafe
>> -------------------
>>
>> This can't be him,
>> the one I've travelled so far to meet.
>> This can't be him! Geldof hair and smoker's skin,
>> slack belly, wasted arms, beige illfitting trousers.
>>
>> Isn't the poet someone slickblackleathered
>> with clean, glossy, fingerfriendly hair,
>> with eyes like turquoise surf,
>> with Calvin Kleins under a crisp piece of denim
>> and boots from some Texan heaven?
>>
>> Yeah, that's him
>> behind the distant-blur pupils
>>
>> I know... but dare I try
>> to touch him?
>>
>>Janet
>>------------------------------------------------------
>>Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
>>Poems at Proximity:
>>http://www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet/proximity.html
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