edge of: (the dark closet)

 

 

we can go to extremes

but not be extreme in our self.
(beginning does not always need
the benefit of end)

better we pretend you are smoking
     as we drive by you
on the corner, steam rising from
the city.

better we pretend we know you
     as we watch your
moves on 10th floor from
the window.

better we pretend you are red
     as we pictured you last night
even though black is the color of
the hair.

we can go to extremes
but not be extreme in our self.
(green does not always need
the benefit of red)

better we pretend you are clothed
     as we watch you on TV
stripped naked and let out into
the night.

better we pretend
     your sex smells sweet
as we see you walk by from
the roof’s edge.

better we pretend
     your life is lonely
as we whisper to you quietly from
the dark closet.

we can go to extremes
but not be extreme in our self.
(sound does not always need
the benefit of air)

Mark David Jordan, 2011