Seated

ADOLF ALZUPHAR

 

 

1.

 

U.

U decide that morning

to turn away from a grouping’s blind bard.

To turn if off.

Stevie Wonder.

All because of a woman.

Not because she's a woman.

But because u'd had enough of a song.

A lonely one.

That can't explain the prison u sleep with.

That can’t explain the prison u sleep in.

That doesn't offer u a problem’s undoing.

As escaping would.

As an escape does.

Perhaps a reason for all of these lost fathers.

Perhaps.

A sun.

This morning u decided that morning was light

That life is night

That to live as because of an other is to live in plight

And that there’s a ticket home.

A train.

To ride over a bridge.

Until u stop.

 

2.

 

Last night

U met a woman over a

Song

Who has learned to hum with

Her arms

Long before she met ur fun.

This one.

Who hid her lips.

Who hid her tongue.

U had her heart in mind.

When u said goodbye.

Once u said goodbye.

The minute

A moment

U said good bye.

Last night u said good bye with a

right

palm over

a

poem.

 

3.

 

That she turned as I spoke

Her head to some film

Unknown

To me

Could only mean

that

The flag I bore I was lost somewhere at

Sea

That i shouldn't believe the things that I believe

That there comes a time in a

Song's life

That begs a man to

Smile.

And leave.

 

4.

 

It must have been a woman who invented doors

That place with hinges made of

White

lace

At times

That smell that one has left

A smell that one has left

That sudden flight

And that I'll spend the night

Far

From here.

 

5.

 

Home

A stone to

Palm

And

feel

Write

A

song

 

Changes

With time.

 

Home

Is a

Plain at the

end of

A

Walk.

 

6.

 

Home

Hurts

Its

Bird in

The

historical

Name of embellishing

being

With a

Sound.

Tire.

Feeling worn.

And so

One sits morose about rather than

Leaving

Home

 

And

That's

 

7.

 

Me.

At times.

Like

Now.

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