Robert Rorabeck Poems

I am here to teach you how to draw
All the sad lines for children,
To make believe there is a sea who has
Adopted them into a world of singing paper
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The day gives me swell light for my mind to
Fumble through the highest basins of these well-burnished
Meadows,
Above the cars and waves alike,
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True beauty eludes me after I saw her
Out in the student park lot taking his cigarette
To lips, contemplative and sharing,
But just tasting the rolled tobacco
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For better or for worse
He is married to a purse

Who drives a four-door hearse,
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How will it feel when they go down in love’s arms,
After friends and relatives have told them that they should-
That she has gone and left me for the boat,
And ever since I have done my best to lose my charm
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The birds fly over my house-
I don’t know where they are going, probably south,
And they look beautiful under-belly even though
I don’t know them;
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I finish my second book of CS Lewis today-
Arizona time, and there’s flying saucers in the sky:
They are sailing ships in my glass almost out of rum
And cayenne pepper which keeps me awake,
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People forget themselves in the dark:
The stars are smoking,
They will soon be run-
People forget themselves,
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Words are scars,
I put them here to lace some kind of virgin,
To smell her like a flower,
And pick her up and take her across the canal
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