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Venn Diagram

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Venn Diagram 

I have lost you to sleep again 
Sleeping as we do on opposite sides of a venn diagram 
I read the time in shadows on your wall 
The shards of light through the slats on your window

I ease myself from under your languid arm
I fumble on my boots and hear you breathe through your alarm 
And I disarm it for you, you rarely heed it anyway 
I wouldn't want it to intrude upon your dream, school bell ring messing up the play

A note, penned clumsily in this century's type-ruined hand 
Saying gone down the shops for a walk I'll bring back some sandwiches 
And then I kiss your face, the black and the blue 
I tie it into my laces, I don't want the wander blocking up the view

I stumble out into the afternoon 
Still salty from drink and the late night pool 
And I'll be gone an hour at most, and you will be more diagonal
And our head in the inner post, I know a castle swallowed in the swell.

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