List Is Long Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

List is long

Oh, is hard
Oh, is hard
-and in fact, very hard
-when you see with my eyes
-what they see, interpret, translate
-digging deep into what takes place

On corner of Bloor-Queens Park
-sits a man, very young
-is lost in picnic chair
-in his paper-pad and a pen
-looks and writes
-hard to know while sitting in the car

He must be taking notes for "Stat"

Change the lights
-cross all vehicles and the cars,
-and people
-most of them nine-to-five's
-with others:
-riders of bicycles
-and the road wanderers
-and the panhandlers
-and roadside-sleepers
-and garbage collectors
-list is long…

But the eye catches what
-gives a boost to the soul
-the angels, Aphrodite's
-well-groomed and made-up
-short skirts and tight tops
-with movements of the butts

A sort of desire lost in lust
-and grace of nature
-beauty's greatness
-roars inside the mind's jar
-as if is the garlic
-enforced in vinegar

Beauty and the curves
-dancing hair in the air
-like the buds, flowers
-in the morning garden
-the tulips and roses
-honey bees, hummingbirds
-nightingales' songs' echoes
-bent bodies, and bulged chests
-and backpacks on shoulders
-pedalling bicycles
-and many coffee cups
-some having a bite on
-a muffin, a bagel, or donut
-the modern breakfast

Feel sunrise in my heart
-silver turns to golden
-great is colour change
-and its heat, temperature

Oh, morning, I love you
-the owl-night can also
-amuse me with glass
-drinking after the libation
-to the past better days, good friends

Eyes play the game of Kissinger
-with Mao and China
-yes ping-pong
-but with girl wearing shorts
-two columns are her legs
-the best that could ever
-go walking on runway
-haunting an audience

I try with my best
-can't stare, must behave
-but recall Judy when
-repeated those days' say:
- "You may watch but don't touch! "
-feel drunk with eyes' wine
-cupid, the arrow and the boy…