Palindromes Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Hopscotch is easy if you’re a tourist,
And the sea is easy if you’re a fish,
But your eyes I’ll never forget,
Like a woman singing in French-
Not matter what she is saying,
It sounds like she loves me,
It sounds like she loves me,
No matter what she is saying,
But you’re eyes I’ll never forget,
And the sea is easy if you’re a fish,
Hopscotch is easy if you’re a tourist.

Thus the rhythm falls through the trees,
While little girls dust the sticks of chalk on their knees,
I want you to look at me,
But you just do as you please,
And I think you love me, no matter what you say,
And no matter what you say, I think you love me,
I want you to look at me,
While little girls dust the sticks of chalk on their knees,
Thus the rhythm falls through the trees.

I have driven the highways you have forgotten,
To find you I broke my jaw on the oracle’s bottle caps,
And I have ridden the roller coasters through the splintered light
Just to get a look at you through the sky,
And is that all right? To kiss you in my slender mind,
To kiss you in my slender mind, and is that all right?
Just to get a look at you through the sky,
And I have ridden the roller coasters through the splintered light,
To find you I broke my jaw on the oracle’s bottle caps,
I have driven the highways you have forgotten.

Day by day, as you lay your head down to sleep,
The kittens mew in a forgotten world,
And the rain scrawls the names of runaways on your roof,
But that is such little proof, like a cousin to the ocean,
I would love to find you by accident as I think about you
Riding to school on your new bicycle.
Riding to school on your new bicycle,
I would love to find you by accident as I think about you,
But that is such little proof, like a cousin to the ocean,
And the rain scrawls the names of runaways on your roof,
The kittens mew in a forgotten world,
Day by day, you lay your head down to sleep.