a serious silent way she holds her face

it’s difficult to not fall in love with charlotte gainsbourg

       at first second or third sight

mid to late november  afternoon   or night

    morning        bright    

the look isn’t french

        if french were a look and not a language   an animal  granted

used and abused by careless women

still  you mustn't resist the dark of the hair and the pull of the lips

to kiss to wish to miss just this    lips  lip enough to affect the  abyss

        of darkened eyes  laugh lines  and street light  sifted

through smiles and lies   clipped  to collide

a singer in the rain

eno   in the movies

judy’s horses

a boy who’s just like me

                                   fucked up insides      
                                          ugly getting uglier

every cigarette is a lie

      even the smoke gets too fucking high

and only cleared throats get to decide

         like it ever could be nineteen hundred and sixty five

                     she knows success   mad love and duress

never worried enough to iron a shirt

             or hold it close enough    to hurt

is it a fling if you flirt   or only if it works

                if the letters learned should be read or be earned

   so take your tornado  the cause of concern

           sit close to the aisle in case anything burns

anything of hers  words  yours

fluid lung epiphany     caught and hung

                        by the neck until dead

limp shoulders smileshoulders  the heart of the head

       left  wishing for hands and three hit demands

jerusalem

         slave ships

are trouble     inviting cello sonatas

four o’clock   sunday

hearing difficulty

       voices   choices are furthered     foisted

synagogue steered

used up but not near   not nearly enough to turn up or tune up

      there is a serious silent way   she holds her face    framed  in english the famous' fate


and no one ever says 'there's not enough weight'

or  ‘the show must go on’

in fact

       nobody ever calls it a show

and it nev

er goes  on or

          anywhere

but someday we know

 it will

move ghost green hills   

with jet black wood

hepburn understood     the half turn
                               and  to

sleep while the sleep

while the  getting is good