David McLansky Poems

How I wish I had a chair,
The walls so gloomy, staLined and bare,
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As I stumble into darkness
Death has lost its empty starkness,
Just a little dopamine
Has given back its Hippie dreams;
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Yes, yes, I remember you,
Though not your name,
How do you do.
Me, I'm doing very well,
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This year I knew no Spring
Having fallen in love in mid-Winter
And before the January thaw
My heart was broken
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How hard your eyes
How harsh your voice
So bitter young
So little choice;
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I watch my Mentor weep
His hooded eyes fight the urge to sleep;
And yet they question him
To make him speak;
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Like a nervous rhesus macaque,
You edge forward and then move back;
You nod and then you hesitate
You hoot and signal me to wait;
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I'm hot
Your not
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She's an interesting wonder
With her hair of long harvest yellow
And her white Madonna face,
Dimple dumpling chin and full white cheeks;
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Like two Apostles
We strode the road,
The high mountain path,
And as we strode
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