Exit 39

Exit 39

You knocked coffee onto my crotch
And made me swerve.
“Panda bears! Panda bears! Panda bears!
Pan. Da. Bears.”
Now there are three hands on the wheel.
And the fourth is pointing.
“I see it! I see it! I see it!”
Leaning against centrifugal forces, and
Steering right, I believed in you.
I closed my eyes
When we kissed. And I threw this day
To what I thought was best.

I wonder if I have ever done anything
That intelligent.
Have any two people in the world, ever
Been further from where they should have been?
And yet closer to where they were?
Than we were?
Feeding ice cream to bears?

© Ciprianowords Inc. 2007

With

With

I have lived without you,
And with.
I want with.

I have been alone,
And not.
It is you that makes me… no.

Remember when we watched
Someone pull from their moorings
And steer out to sea?

And we said we would have one of those?
One day?
Knowing we would not?

I love that you knew that.
That we would not.
Be on a yacht.

But that concrete.
Your shoes and the miles we walked.
I would bend now and kiss.

I have lived without you.
And with.
I want with.

© Ciprianowords Inc. 2007