8/31/95 #2

                                    8/31/95
                                Sao Paulo



Somewhere in my blood
Is a wish quietly spoken
"May I live and die romantic..."



Further analysis finds only associations rather than answers
To questions held un-spent



South- of Spain, of the border, of the sun, of Northern writers, of my flesh, of reason, of midnight, the cooling stars, of her hips, of Egremont, of love



Love- unfound, lost, shared, felt, somewhat felt, unreturned, offered, refused, forgotten, remembered, mis-interpreted, learned,programmed, offered again, flaunted, screamed,whispered, cursed, hidden, mis-spent, faked, denied, produced, grown, discovered, spoken, written



Words- read, stolen, borrowed, tripped over, seen, had delivered by the hand of God, missing, spat, scribbled, typed, found while looking for others, repeated, repeated, dreamed, slept on, given away, bled, punned, mis-spelt, hidden



It's in there somewhere. I hope it stays.