Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Fair Play

the day
I found him gone
found I'd lost him
was the day
I looked
for you again

by turns
crying until I
hyperventilated
and hyperventilating
until I cried
I did both so hard
I could do neither
effectively
stuck in
stuck under
suffering

nothing provided
relief
not the booze
nor the anger
a useless surly drunkenness
feeding itself
on itself

you looked sweetly at me
an empathetic brightness
like a green light above
a night street
on your roundness of face
open
then dumbfounded
as I propositioned you
not with words
but with body
swinging it
swinging limbs
over you
on your mom's ex couch
grinding mouth
and tears
and pelvis

might as well have
been humping the air
at least it would've
met me
with a few molecules
of resistance
but you didn't return
my bearing
and bearing down
didn't even resist
as much as you recoiled

in that moment
fat with
raw sadness
and shame
and a hard on
as memory kicked me
where I was soft
explaining
your empathy

I once left you

melancholy
embarrassment
and blood
all drained away
only that angry lush
remained
unable to see it
your way
unwilling to relate
just overflowing with fumes
rage and questions
thickly bouncing around my head
who'd you look for
the day you found me gone?

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