by Aaron Cohen
Last night
And the night before we lay in bed a thousand mile apart dreaming.
Mine: Auschwitz pretending
to be a movie theatre.
Yours: ______________________________
Feburary 14.
So still outside the maple branches need to stretch
To keep from getting sore.
Today is the day of emergency chocolate
But forgiveness does not bind two people together.
He climbed the vine looking
to get back up to join us not meaning
to pull the rest of us down.
I hand you these things feeling
as though I’ve dropped
them before I even let go.
Among other things, seven gangsters were killed
On this day:
Japanese parachutists land
Arethra Franklin records Respect.
on this day we pull over to the side of the road on an island
weeping, and a bomb explodes in Amsterdam and oh!
Don’t forget: Wilde’s "The Importance of Being Earnest" opens in London
Among other things, love can grow
Like the vine around the bend
Copyright 2006
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