Good one...
>
>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
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>
> 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
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>Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
>Poems at Proximity:
>http://www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet/proximity.html
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