ext_2122 ([identity profile] slashfairy.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] greatpoetry 2009-09-24 09:20 pm (UTC)

no worries.

perhaps because i am older now, and would give a lot to have every day be this recognizably full and rich, and at the end of it to "be as far from death as a man can be"... so when there's something that reminds me- your post, his poem- i feel i owe it to that wish to not be dismissive even if in earlier times i might have been.
it is only James Taylor on the stereo—
sweet, sentimental James—and I don't give a damn what anyone thinks

of my taste or emotional proclivities, I only know it's Thursday and in
an hour I'll be making love
...

Yep. This one's getting printed out to read when I forget.

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