Shivering For the Greyhound; Inside, Denouement

 

 

            I have loved so many women that

            It hurts to contemplate

 

            Wavy haired stick woman

            Who never spoke to me

 

            The luscious few

            Of kind eyes

            That did-

 

            Love, that love, ever love

                                    never hate

 

            On busses and in anger

            I’m weeping when they turn away and

            Laughing

 

            My world, a world of love

 

            Waking after daylight to

            Her smile and

            Her kiss

 

            Looking at the station when

            Her car is gone

 

            This is how it starts

            The creeping madness of admiration eternal

 

            When we are simple

            Like a good poem

            Like I am

            It hurts to contemplate

 

            But sometimes the good, good people

            Force your hand

            Make you cry and

            Enter your slumber like

            Wavy haired stick woman

            When you were fourteen

 

            She rises like the sun

            Rises like the sun

            Puts my lower lip

            Between her teeth

 

            I have loved

            So many women

 

            So few

            Have loved

            Back

 

            Bless her