been creative lately.
It's all fictional by the way
Partnership
No resolution, a looped piano riff
clears the afternoon,
we argue at the same time of day
with equal ferocity everyday for years.
A loving care in our eyes as the
dissent exhales and glares.
I fear it’s only the hatred
that keeps us together.
Mutual aggression
our one common interest.
as bile flies we collapse down the wall ─
into each other again
calmed by this mating ritual,
we spit and stammer our way to
a make-shift transcendence.
Persuasion
Altruism exists in touches
of flattery and irony;
innuendo brings promises of gifts.
It’s a detached ease
in which this discernible sainthood is achieved.
You have inordinate poise
for these self depreciating jokes,
I realise it’s a ruse at once
and yet I laugh, enthralled.
eyes drop for a moment
then reconnect, allowing a precise smile ─
the manoeuvring resumes.
Exquisite control,
she trains and conditions like a master.
Rudimentary
you were impulsive, I thought
you kissed me the night we met
because you liked my name
You let nothing out,
not then, not ever
making slow talk
about whiskey and snow-globes
I knew the reason of this union
was to disconnect
and I merrily obliged
asking nothing.
evading all elements of closeness.
we lasted longer than we should have
I bonded with friends meanwhile,
with intimacy like lovers
and relationships for life.
It felt like infidelity.
I wanted to confide this betrayal
but you’d never hear it,
no
that was never part of the deal.
the loose affiliation went on.
04 Jan 2008, 10:21 am
