Part-Time Poet

some things i wanted to say to you

beenthinking:measart:

if the horse that you ride

is blind it’s good

that it also be slow,

and please stroke it

a hundred more times than you would

the powerful dazzling one.

to be generous is one thing,

but there’s a clerk in some of us,

quick to say yes.

worry about the command

in the suggestion.

worry about smiles, and those men

whose business is business.

there are joys and enigmas

of an evening alone

to appreciate.

there are always the simple events

of your life

that you might try to convert

into legend.

did you know

a good dog in your house

can make you more thoughtful,

even more moral?

and sex without conversation,

sex that’s erotic or sleepy…

oh don’t let anybody tell you

there’s a wrong way to have it.

tell your lovers the world

robs us is so many ways

that a caress is your way

of taking something back.

tell the dogs and the horses

you love them more than cars.

speak to everything

would be my advice.

                   by stephen dunn

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