Planet Unrequitia Poem 155
At the laundromat now a woman
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We take our ragged bones out
of rented rooms for long walks.
You point out between bricks
the rainbows in windows,
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Dripped in
Soaked from rain announcing,
'I need to get out of these
Wet clothes and into a dry martini'
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Planet UnRequitia Poem # 4
for Krisna
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For Karthik
'Sleepy Bee, ' she called to him. 'Go, my Sleepy Bee, to the garden go and be sure to smell the jasmine there, touch gently the spices in trembling rows, fetch then some of them, chilies of many colors and I will prepare for you a dish as you wish. When the teacher makes you sleepy by noon reach then your fingers to your face, smell the spices there, remember the touch of smooth skinned chilies whispering of lingering liaisons to come, and you will brighten my Sleepy Bee.'
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**'the Grottoes' - a sacred site with rushing underground springs flowing up from rock caverns into equally rushing streams in Oaxaca, Mexico
...return in storm, mudslide, road
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tell me now
glass-handled knives
I'm not clear where we started
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your letters arrive fat
swollen with human form
they fly out from my palms
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end. - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable
Here is one more system of philosophy. If the reader is tempted to smile, I can assure him that I smile with him...I am merely trying to express for the reader the principles to which he appeals when he smiles. - Georges Santayana
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