06 January 2012

i didn't love because it didn't love


we hardly even knew each other
and that was the glue
      stuck us together
kept us on the ground
while the peaches are in season
the trees just in reach
there’s little left to do
            but teach

i won’t let anyone hurt the pearl
the laudanum
      the mild form of the wild world
none of us
and none of this
      will make amends
let’s not be friends
   let’s not be trite
did you hear the truth song
                                the one by the giant

   ninety three
the more fool   i
it’s an estimate
            of what it’ll be
what you’ll see
in the land of cotton
where old times are
      all but forgotten
palm trees and sunshine
the basis of every story
from the gulf
      but smaller   seven
left to fend for himself
the aristocrat
            the girl

it’s easy to tell the stories
if you don’t let the truth
get in the way
make it a blue dress
make it so there’s
no need to confess
so there’s nothing to regret
      on the shore

in eighty four
      at seventeen
said i didn’t love
because it didn’t love
   in the art class
elaine floyd
   said
what
      said
   how
she was a hippie then
but she’s
      a hypocrite
now




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