I wish you would have answered me
when I asked you who we were?
I wanted to know if you were afraid of death or sex
but there's no easy way to ask
we just sat talked about things that didn't matter
and between laughter and decaf coffee
we convinced ourselves we weren't tired
I kept swallowing my words until I was so dizzy
the trafic beyond the dirty cafe window moved backwards
until it collapsed into itself and I blurted out stupid questions
wondering what good intentions were worth
your answers were jumbled because I was listening
to the people at the table next to us at the same time;
surreal words unrolling off their tongues;
red ribbons on the winter wind that rushed through the cafe door
getting tangled around the branches of our hands
and we tried to grasp them as they slipped away
you tied the one you caught into my hair
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
~Mark Twain
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams
Live the life you've always imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau
really wonderful piece.
At first I wanted to say 'make stanzas, break it up', but then I thought better of it and realized that this sort of experience is like a whirlwind and it ought to stay this way. Like your thoughts were swept away by conversation and you couldn't hold them again.
The more I read it over, the more it unpacks itself.
I particularly liked the choice of 'unrolled' rather than rolled in surreal words unrolling off their tongues - as if the words are already there and they come out when we open our mouths.
This is the kind of good writing that says so much with simple words.
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