Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Forever, I Suppose

 

Class was in session. An innuendo was dropped. Most dreams are thought out. Most ironic to assert—and loving you was made easy, for a shared soul. He adores what he can’t master. It hurts to love you. You die in loving by return. Religious rites, golden eyes, nothing matters aside family. A neat pedicure. A glacial manicure. Pruning the garden on Sunday morning. I was musing upon brilliance, laughing without notice, walking pastures inside; by darker skies, dusky rivers, smoldering prayers, suffocation, eyes opened. Sold fear, in exchange for balance, never considered our magazines, our books, our participation; accumulation of stars, fractured wings, to amass density. But class was in session, those eyes spoke uncalm calmness, contradiction, a hand in its thrills, a note in its motion, forces typing with us, like spirits in the good book. But class was in session. It seemed so indelicate. Like a table, with a therapist, and others can’t move, can’t chance the winds, to speak a whisper, to gaze upon a smile, to laugh, to sense a ghost. Indeed, class was in session, men grew nervous, tugged like springs, reverberating into sunshine, proud to adore, with worries showered by affection, not much more to presume.    

I’d Save The Reader Years

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