on 6/12/05 1:39 AM, Ken Wolman at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> rather like
> the Carol Burnett skit about Snow White and Prince Charming 20 years
> later. I have been looking for years for Erica Jong's "ZF" (can't spell
> it out here)--it applies to men as well as to women. Excitement without
> consequences. It's a myth.
>
> ken
I think I sent this as a Wed snap early on....
Old Romeo
Tybalt didn¹t harm Mercutio,
and wasn¹t hurt by Romeo -
him, the son-in-law, old Capulet
soon learned to tolerate.
They settled down into a long marriage.
In time she saw his limitation,
mentioned it. Desire, now as then,
(which she¹d outgrown, called it
Œpossessive¹ - Œwhy marry?¹)
would wake him after midnight.
The whole long night¹s moonlit
silence was punctuated by a quiet
night-bird stirring twice on the roof,
by the sleeping dog touching a claw
on the wall, by the rare slight snore
of Juliet beside him, by the pulsing vein
near his ear on the pillow,
by the first traffic on the hill,
then a whisper of a breeze
by the window briefly lifting leaves;
day now silently resumed.
The bird of dawning had eluded him
again. He must have dozed.
They were together still.
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