After reading Adrienne Rich’s Twenty One Love Poems No. 2 :
And then
There’s waking up there in a house of a lover. There is the new lover’s house and old lover’s house.. There’s the lover who lives alone, the lover who lives with others, the lover who lives with a pet, the lover who lives with a lover that is not you, there are all sorts of loves, all sorts of lovers. Each of them a different adventure, a different dance, a different style.
Ah the leaving… when you close that door and walk to the street and no one on the street knows that you are coming out to this world from hours of love making…
how loveless this world could be sometimes…
There’s a poet somewhere right-now sleeping in a lover’s bed exhausted by their passion, there’s a poet somewhere somehow managed to be loved without being forced to submit to social norms – there’s a poet out there pissing from the tallest building in New York City or drinking a cappuccino in small bus station just outside Tunis and reading a small paperback book. There’s a poet somewhere looking through eyes of thousand lovers and tasting the air of many strange houses.
Look lilacs are growing on her tongue, and a cow is learning how to tango on smooth floors of his bare chest. And then there’s a poet… drinking a lukewarm coffee, alone, banging on a keyboard behind piles of excel cells build up like the grate wall of china knowing a world of beauty exist out there, sundresses, ice cream cones, sound of someone biting into a crunchy apple, green lush grass, young couples, old couples, and smell of fresh baked bread, and he knows he’s not in it.. there are poets in everywhere in any given moment… look at them – look at them and be grateful that you are not him or her – look at them and be afraid for poets can’t just wake up and leave..
One Poem At A Time 