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In Bed Pondering the Nature of Love and Fame
today more
wheat
haylight
isn't it wonderful
thinking about me?
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one day
pearl
she's all light
more
wonderful
isn't she?
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lovers can be good and beautiful
parked on a hill watching
the mist coagulate above ocean
I stopped on that thought
pondering history and imagination
looking a gift horse in the mouth
what a wonderful smile!
January 25, 1998
Dim Sum
peanuts, pork, shrimp, tea
jazz talk on my tongue & thinking
about which way I'm not going
at making it happen
want to smoke a peace pipe
and send up a signal in a cloud that
the 90's are no big deal
and when you turn
what that could possibly mean
to face Wednesday or an auspicious Saturday
bring the soy sauce
red hot sweet & sour sauce
auspicious like the stars
but I'm fogged in so I just guess beyond that
sticky web there must be galaxies
being born
Orion's belt sparkling so hard
someone somewhere
can't help but fix their eyes
on his dark crotch
silence rips at my head
I take migraine medicine
back to imagining what if we could
order more
Dim Sum
in the heart of the Russian Diaspora
Richmond District, SF
how poets look strange on T.V.
"Opera" Winfrey, Martha Graham, Dan Rather
are not poets
(one unifying thought might help)
when this pretty Chinese woman
brings the bill $17, we leave a twenty
then shake hands on the good fortune
of our auspicious meeting
a couple hours later
I'm hungry for a peanut butter & jelly sandwich
Legend: January 31, 1999
Talk to me in any language
I'll stop talking
Make meaning clearer
More naked and I become
more practiced in my dance
along the nerve
It's raining
now everywhere around
dousing all the flames at sea
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three
poems
michael.
rothenberg
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