Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Constellation anxiety

A capricorn enjoys long walks
by the beach, rolling sushi and
the satisfaction of clean windows. Occasionally enjoys the complex
bouquet of a cabernet sauvignon.
Avoids pinstripes. Fills-in the gaps
that other people, a Taurus or
those pesky Geminis, make in their shoes and their souls.
Cries at that scene in Harold and Maude
when she throws the ring into
the sea "so I will always know
where it is." Isn't wonderful
around kids.

The stars don't quite get it
when they proclaim that
the lost love of your life
will return in the night, and at 3 am
when you realize that it isn't going to
happen, you open up
the supermarket guacamole and
an early episode of Friends,
cast in the sacred light of
their east village apartment.
Above: a plane etches a line
through the canvas of night.
How beautiful and savage that
the twinkled brows of the sky
imagine our existence, and we
their delicately lined providence.

-- WH Lee

Is bored in bunk

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