Download - a strong sense of tenderness
a strong sense oftenderness
plum flower come fal l ing off the tree for me
there is a river underneath us and we are
being taken somewhere unfamil iar
feel the water soak into your back
plum flower we are meshed together
fingers by fingers hands by hands bodies
by bodies our
bell ies are touching and our faces are
blushing red
plum flower i am kissing you under the roof
of a building i am kissing you in a thousand
fields i am kissing you like a hundred soft
petals of the wildflowers
can you feel the hundred soft petals
because under this roof of this building you
are kissing me like a thousand more
drowning very quietly in the reflecting pool of
the washington monument under the moon
the secret service fishes me out with a giant
pool net
what are you doing, they ask
i am spitting out gross reflecting pool water
and walking away
wait, they yell
in the instant before i am tackled to the
ground by three members of the secret
service i am remembering the curves of your
si lhouette
thinking i am going home
turn on your side and kiss me in the morning
your l ips are soft and gentle, i am dissolving
in the arms of you i wil l write my constitution and in
the arms of you i wil l fal l to pieces and rebuild
i am putting dry shampoo in my hair and the l ight is
streaming anxious through the window
you are laying on the bed with your shirt on your lap
reading words aloud to me
i could l ive l ike this, i think
i could be happy living l ike this, i think
we wil l walk beside the canal in springtime and stand
on the bridge and point out the shopping carts under
the glassy surface of the water
the tips of the leafless trees are reaching up and
slowly budding and i feel l ike i am a fractal among
them in the clouds
the birds are back and making sounds in the
morning with their beaks open
at noon the bells at the church down the street ring
and i feel the ghost of you beside me
the new leaves on the trees are waxy green and
soft and the grey sky is cal l ing
rol l me under a wave in the place
where it crashes and let my hair be ful l
of sand and let my hands and feet get
pruny and make me taste l ike salt
put seaweed in my mouth put hermit
crabs on my stomach and legs put a
single huge spiney starfish on the
space between my clavicles
i love you with the fury of an ocean in
a hurricane i love you with the
sweetness of lapping waves at your
feet and i promise
with al l these parts of the sea on me
and in me
i wil l never let you drown
i love you so much i would
bring you six peeled
tangerines to eat in bed
don't ask because of course
there is room for you in me
my ribs are hollow, my chest
is empty, come fi l l me up
we are two doves
nesting in a hollow
tree somewhere in
barcelona, spain
the sun comes down like a shaft of l ight into my room and i
reach for you but only get the phantom feeling of your body like
a limb has been removed but the brain sti l l recognizes the
place where it's been
come back to me and make me bread pudding for breakfast
come back and drool on my pil lows and snore in the night
help me be whole again
i t seemed like al l the leaves on all the trees
unfurled simultaneously and it seemed like
the seasons fel l over each other faster than i
expected and it seemed like
walking to the grocery store
every person i passed could be you
i can look at my reflection in a glass
storefront and see myself and quickly
fleetingly see you behind me before your
ghost is gone
my leaves are unfurl ing much more slowly
than the trees' but i wil l bloom when i am with
you
standing on a platform over a river where the bank on the left
had caved in way much into a cliff i wanted to kiss you because
i am afraid of heights and you took my hand gently and led me
out over thin air and with your hand in mine i was not afraid
anymore
later we would hold hands in the car driving back to your house
i would wish to myself that it would rain, because it seemed
appropriate
it wouldnt but we would get to your house safely and bring
everything out of the trunk and fal l heavy on the bed
so soft and so warm i am caught up
in you and the joints of your body
continual ly amazed that part a slots
into part b so delicately so cleanly
you beautiful machine
i want to cradle you and comfort you
and put our softnesses together
your heart beats l ike a small bird's
heart would beat, sometimes
your hands are smaller than mine
and the tendons rise when you move
your fingers
melt completely into me i want to
melt completely into you, for days, no
feeling but body warmth and a
weightless floating and your skin on
my skin
i wil l bite into a pear and the juice wil l
fal l sticky on your stomach
i could meet you at night on a
bench and eat strawberry yogurt
and laugh about it later and i could
show up to your house with a ful l
pot of warm soup and i could help
you move in to your new apartment
and carry the heavy dresser up the
stairs and get stuck in the weird
curve at the top of the stairs and
need you to help me canti lever the
dresser off of my foot and i could
go to parties with you and drink too
much and fal l asleep on the couch
in your new house
i want to be alive with you in every
sense of the word i want to
experience what you experience
and i want to make you food when
you are sick i want to pul l you into
an alley on our way home and kiss
you for the first time ever with the
early winter snow starting to fal l
wetly on our hair and our hands
cold in our pockets
you
me
this is dumb im listening to a
tracy chapman song and im
gettin those feelings u know
the ones
the ones where youre l ike
almost ok with crying but since
its because ure l istening to a
tracy chapman song u dont
want to let the floodgates open
since it seems kinda contrived
sti l l
there is an empty space next
to me where you should be
and maybe i do have a reason
to cry to a tracy chapman
song even though it is a l ittle
cheesy
i would go to disney world with you and i mean it
and that is the most sincere presentation of my
affection i can muster because going to disney world
as not a seven year old becomes sort of a hell ish
experience unless you do the drink around the world
at epcot thing but i wouldn't do that with you
because i'd be too busy holding your hand and
probably crushing some of the bones while
screaming very shri l ly on that one ride with the
animatronic yeti where you go backwards for a while
and i guess what i 'm saying here is that i would put
myself through walking around a lot of children and
their parents and overpriced snacks and being
bombarded by disney propaganda for you
can we go to the water parks though typhoon lagoon
has this awesome tube ride it would be so much fun
get me a shirt with a photo of you sitting on a lawn
chair on it but make the photo real small and
under the photo i want to have the shirt say in
bedazzled letters
SUPERSTAR
i wil l wear this shirt to every formal occasion and
you wil l get real ly flustered by it and i won't stop
because i feel the world needs to know you are
excellent always
somehow i keep thinking "i am
in love" and it feels good in a way that
is unique to the feeling l ike the
taste of kiwi fruit, somewhat
astringent
im eating pineapple rounds right out of the
can and my fingers are sticky but im wiping
them on my jeans
you are out there in the world
you are breathing and moving and sleeping
and eating baked beans and talking to your
mother over the phone
your existence makes me want to supernova
into some beautiful explosion thousands of
l ightyears away
it is hard not to l ike this l ife when you are
also in it
this was going to be all about
drake initial ly but it turns out i
love you more than i love drake
because even though you are
not a successful rapper with
many top forty hits you are closer
to me and did not act on
degrassi
that is worth more to me than
being a successful rapper who
has a lot of feel ings and conveys
them through raps
that one come on we're going
home song is real ly good though