Thursday, March 17, 2005

For Lovelorn Young Clients



BETTER THAN POTIONS

Our village love counsellor
tells her lovelorn young

clients that kittens cannot
be caught but if you stay

where you are and do some-
thing interesting the kit-

ten will soon come to you.





I SUPPOSE

the rhetoricians might call this
a variety of the pathetic fallacy

but when we talk on the telephone
I imagine I hear cunt in your voice

the soft slish of honey on silk as
Henry Miller used to describe it.




WAITING

Patiently I'm waiting
For the day when you'll discover
That it was always me
You were waiting for.


- Three poems from The Secret Room, by James Laughlin.

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