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Poems - call her
| | call herby John
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and he doesn't want to call her
a past magician
a present mathematician
he pulls daggers out of his voice box
whispering fractions of past disappearing acts
"I'm sorry sweetie but I don't think I can give you want you want”
freshly stoned he dodges another rock
dust stings his eyes as rain swells the river
running faster
he strings his wishes in the wind
they’re paper dolls blowing
C notes
he's stopped keeping the score of
so many women
a whole life full of women
a mother
the grandmother who watched him every day after school
girlfriends fiancées
a parody of monogamy
weaving past lovers into a rope
around his neck he ties the slip knot
loops over the banister and jumps
free falling
freedom his feet land on the ground so he holds the knot against his chest
cuts it and pulls out guilt still strung together
“Honest, there is nothing up my sleeve”
he lies
he is a magician
he knows the illusion of distance
of half truths
omissions
required
unrequited
he unmakes the bed and he doesn't want to call her
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he thinks of his mother
raven beauty abandoned with a baby at 24
hours to midnight she cries every night
he wakes
walks to her bed
the door is open
there’s no boyfriend here so he sleeps clutching her 98 pounds
fingers through long night hair
“I promise I’ll be here in the morning now sleep child, sleep”
iii
today he wants to take a fast train to new york and sit across from her cross legged
hold a hand and subtract the effort from his smile
add it to hers divide their expectation evenly
he’s no Einstein or Houdini and neither three believed in clairvoyance
but see
but you see
see he knows
he could spend a lifetime in that smile
iv
he wants to fly to California and sit across from her cross country
but across from her window another man is leaving
his baby cries
he’ll point that out
ask if the right things are expected here
“would you mind if I leave you now? you must believe me how I say there is no way this will work I could make my past disappear but your eyes make my fear multiply
my expectations are illusions
there is no cost solution for this price of admission
I am a magician a past mathematician
your smile is really expensive to me
I’ve done the math
so watch this trick while I hide…
I’ll hide my heart inside my sleeve
here is my voice
watch me make it fly
watch it fly away as your dove…
”but he doesn’t want to call her no, he doesn’t want to fall for her no, he doesn’t want to fall in this thing no, he won't call this
love…
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i love the weaving o
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by crlpr11 on Sunday, January 07, 2007 (13:02:11) |
i love the weaving of math and magic. a couple of times i almost forgot that the theme was introduced, but it always came back around. beautiful imagery.
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i love the weaving o
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by John on Friday, March 30, 2007 (19:38:44) |
Thank you. I tried to do two themes woven at once with this one.
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i love this piece.
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by Mayo on Saturday, February 10, 2007 (20:25:12) |
i love this piece. it is masterful and touching and real. you won me over in the first four lines and you never lost me. fantastic.
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i love this piece.
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by John on Friday, March 30, 2007 (19:37:23) |
Thank you so much. I appreciate your feedback on this one.
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You are very DEEP MA
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by POETRY on Monday, February 26, 2007 (22:23:00) |
You are very DEEP MAN,A very kool cat,With word's that are free and they do FLY.....TALK-2-u, ( POETRY )
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You are very DEEP MA
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by John on Friday, March 30, 2007 (19:38:17) |
l8r, mn.
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I quite like this Jo
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by TheBohemian on Thursday, February 19, 2009 (19:14:06) |
I quite like this John. Typo S1L6.
'what you want' ?
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WoW!!!!! I loved th
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by Just.eM on Thursday, February 19, 2009 (23:32:18) |
WoW!!!!! I loved this. Loved it! This is a rare gem on this site!!!
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Re: call her
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by SpiritOfTheVoid on Friday, September 04, 2009 (10:27:26) |
Very good read... worked especially well with some old blues playing in the background as I looked it over 
Peace.
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