3.26.2004 :::
Tea With Both Sides
I
I walk, so slow. So slow, I don't
Walk anymore.
Falling down into a mousetrap, set
Up for those mice,
Crawling upanddown your chesterfield.
A man of York stopped my standing still.
And explained.
It's just like spinning plates. "What"
I exclaimed, not asked.
But he just vanished, into
A Magician's bus.
Again, I'm walking still, standing at the
Stop sign.
Waiting, expecting the green light.
Life's waiting for a green light.
Stuck being a caution flag.
See me, talking to a stuffed bear.
Who is exciting to me.
It's coming soon, I can see it in the
Thunder clouds.
It's coming soon, but I don't
Know yet, she smiles.
She's who I'd do most
Anything for,
Except for those things, I cannot
Do.
Why can't I last forever,
We will, but we won't know.
What if you are wrong,
And the highways die.
II
Why did the fire go out today, and
Leave you to fly away.
Because I'll not find you in the night
Skies, or in the vacuums you find
So silly. Remember that I woke
Up on the wrong side of the bed
Someday soon ago. And while
I was walking down to Mulberry Lane,
I came across the most quaint cafe.
Calling me with it's spirits of old.
When was it that we made love into
A game, to be won, or lost, most
Often both of these.
But this is not a worry of the Café de
Exquisite.
Where it is, that upon my daily
Pilgrimage to find whatever
Lives inside the city
I come across the place of worship,
To those people who have nerves
That serve life, a devil's tool.
Alas. upon arrival, on the day before
The end begins I find nowhere,
Nowhere to begin my soothing
Rituals at the Café de Exquisite.
III
Before progression, rewind now.
And lift the curtain that leads forward.
A pale ghost, with Blonde snow on
Top. A child of God, who is not
Wrong. Lights the sky,
And lifts the day, among the
Clowns that put on the play.
Does like a woman will do.
To all those she is a mother,
Among saints, and fails
To topple my mighty
Monalith. But fails not in those
Of most important merit.
Again she is my fair fire queen,
Leaving behind only ash.
IV
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::: posted by Matthew at 12:38 PM
