you were wearing that dowdy raincoat again and i wondered aloud if i had
met an old woman instead, & taken home an impostor
so you snatched the umbrella from behind the stairs
& in the style of errol flynn subdued me once & for all

& i swear that i couldn't stop laughing
when you plopped that crooked little shoe on my chest & hissed,
'do you YIELLLD, suh?'

it was so damn funny, the way 'yield' stretched out
into two syllables
& I howled, saying 'shit! i fell on the keys!'
& you howled, collapsing onto my legs
& saying, 'jesus, i love you.'

that night,you got a piggyback up the stairs
& when you were asleep for long enough,
i said 'jesus, i love you', until it was just a sound
until the syllables wore themselves out
& stretched out between our mouths
driving us like horses off a cliff

08/03/2010

Posted on 05/13/2011
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