While You Were Out...

A little background info...

I wrote this while staying with a friend in a guest house in Japan, and came up with the idea for it because of a girl (why else would I write a poem?).

So, this is again one of my experiments from long ago...

I think it still works:

After last night (the boast –

remember?

“I could write a poem about you”)

I have tried to find the

time for this. Listening

to this pencil on paper, the shower,

the washer, the radio,

my feet on the floor,

nervous. But something

is less successful

here. When I write,

not with peace and quiet,

I try to catch it all

and never lie about

experience. If I keep

this at one rhythm,

one idea, I will lie

and say that your voice

does not move me

or that talking

with you was real and

the comfort of my

long stay here, near

the rice paddies, the

mountains, streams,

all this in nature;

not your smile, my hopes

and thoughts of you

while you were out.

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