a LEX cArt7
once
you were a democrat in
a gray shirt
oh exalted. oh standing sideways while
the windows opened
and telling us about locking
a car. a block of ice. things you may
have never sung or
poster board along the bedroom wall.
"this newspaper clipping-
it is
about myself and oh we
had wonderful
times when in brooklyn or long island all the big irish families laughed
heartily
because oh you
know how being
tragic is wonderful
for laughter-
and oh yes they put too many 'l's in my last name."
we shut
the window.
the rain was
coming in.
it was gray rain,
red-striped
he sat on the radiator and whistled a jazz riff that he knew since littleness and
that blue-blooded peasant folk stirred
as all the capitalization
reduced in cycling melodies-
notes-on-a-scale
four
two
one-
"yes. there are many ways to love-me-
but only one in which
I shall let
you"
once
you were a democrat in
a gray shirt
oh exalted. oh standing sideways while
the windows opened
and telling us about locking
a car. a block of ice. things you may
have never sung or
poster board along the bedroom wall.
"this newspaper clipping-
it is
about myself and oh we
had wonderful
times when in brooklyn or long island all the big irish families laughed
heartily
because oh you
know how being
tragic is wonderful
for laughter-
and oh yes they put too many 'l's in my last name."
we shut
the window.
the rain was
coming in.
it was gray rain,
red-striped
he sat on the radiator and whistled a jazz riff that he knew since littleness and
that blue-blooded peasant folk stirred
as all the capitalization
reduced in cycling melodies-
notes-on-a-scale
four
two
one-
"yes. there are many ways to love-me-
but only one in which
I shall let
you"