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FOR A
There are these little deaths
in the middle
of you
and me
Like the time just after we stop kissing
or when - today - for a moment - I looked away
and clumsily abandoned
the blueness in your Seal Beach eyes
or
moved my hand from your knee to scratch my face
and was instantly terrorized by the thought of maybe
not seeing you - till - JESUS CHRIST -Wednesday!
These crazy crazy little deaths - that - like a kid
I want to stop and snatch back
immediately
but can't have
All this - a swamp of feelings - is strange
upsetting
and new
it is as if I am having my soul drained...carried away
almost against my will
Yet here - an hour later - pen on paper
I relive our little deaths
and find that all I want
could ever hope for - God -
is
more gasoline
and
more matches
and the amazing touch
of
you
Dan Fante is the author of Spitting Off Tall Buildings, Chump
Change and Mooch. He's lives in Los Angeles and is the son of
author/screenwriter John Fante.
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