ah youth.
good stuff, 1st st esp
KS
On 14/02/07, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> SHE HEARD ME DIFFERENTLY THAN HOW I THOUGHT US
>
> Long ago, one date, first date,
> on bringing her back home, overwhelmed,
> in the vestibule there are mad consuming kisses,
> two people in Great Dane mode,
> and she's not a Dane, she's Turkish,
> so this is at last exotica erotica,
> a Byzantine fastball, right over the plate,
> and then I screw it up:
>
> for I speak Love into her ear,
> importunate, unfortunate, ill-timed because
> love at first sight happens only if you are
> Browning and Barrett (and then because
> Liz was so afraid of her old man
> she would have killed the dog herself
> to escape from the paternal madhouse)
> and of course this is premature,
> ego mixing passion with feeling,
>
> so she says nothing really except nods,
> continues to mmrrmmph my tongue into a beer tap,
> giving the kiss-off and I don't even know it,
> and for days thereafter around school
> she avoids me, never in fact tells me the truth
> of her lack of emotion and my excess of same,
> that she doesn't see me as I wanted to see her,
> it takes me awhile to infer the message that
> I could have fucked her so long as I did not
> dare to say I loved her.
>
> KTW/2-13-07
>
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> --------------------
> Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I
> was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I
> rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."
>
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