Friday, 9 September 2011

TELLING A GIRL THE TRUTH AGES AGO (CHET BAKER)

we are wrapped in coats after some gig.
north London.
ages ago.

she is short.
unphotographable.

the truth I tell her is
I DON’T THINK I HAVE EVER BEEN HAPPY.
she snorts.
looks away.
is amused.

instantly i am too tall
and ridiculous.

no more was said about it
and in her flat of parties
in her tidy clutter bedroom
she makes tampons disappear while I blink.
playing
she puts on an electric pink wig.

I am serious foolish speechless.

she’s
burning
into
my retina.

I am sleeping on the spare room floor
getting up at 5am
to 
ride 
strange buses 
and walk 
new streets..

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