Occasional Impressions

Gemini Twin

at this moment clung to him...

[for eleanor]

            at this moment clung to him
on the prow of a maybe cardboard ship
it is possible to believe the script
& think love is all,

            but there is some sort of heroism
in riding brave across the film set
to know at the end there only comes
the screenwriters signature.

            it says on the sign star room no 1
& hands gently arrange her body in the required ways
but when the moral is tight in the throat
& its time to go home & arrange the home

            maybe no doctor in the world can heal the hurt
maybe no rehearsed kiss of valour can heal that hurt.
ijf

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