Thursday, August 30, 2012

Slippery Afternoon

You love me
in a way.   to make me cry

swiftly as the grey rain slips down the window
the gentle weeping of the lonely cook.    over her dirty dishes
      splash into the scummy water, the saltwater from her lashes

and in the greasy streets outside
the giggling children and the whisk of a cat
around the corner

Your haunted eyes are   dark collections of thoughts and memories
opening up
When you look at me like       a crazy man
all torn up and wanting, starving like the cat...but hungrier
My smile disappears
    no it fades away quickly.   And is taken over by a slip of tears
You make me cry

the way your eyes love me.   like the raindrops so steady but        hard to catch

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