Baby and Demon

Baby I'm sick. I need
nursing. Give me your breast.
My orfices bleed.
I cannot sleep. My chest
shakes like a window. Light
guts me. My head's not right.

Demon we're old, old chap.
Born under the same sign
after some classic rape.
Gemini. Yours is mine.
sickness and health. We'll
share the end of this affair.

Baby I'm sick to death.
But I can't die.
You do the songs.
You've got the breath.
Give them the old soft shoe.
Put on a lovely show.
Put on your wig, and go.

The service station flags,
denticulate plastic
snap in the wind.
Hunched seabirds wait
for light to quench the
unmeaning lights of town.
This day will bring
the fabulous summer down.

Weather no memory
can match will fade
to memory, leaves drift
in the pines' thick shade.

All night salt water
stroked and shaped the sand.
All night I heard it.
Your bravura hand
chimed me to shores
beyond times' rocking swell
The last cars to leave
the shabby beach motel.

Lovers and drunks
unroofed in sobering air
disperse, ghost coloured
in the streetlight glare.

Rock-a-bye baby
In the motel
Baby will kiss
Demon will tell

One candle lights us.
Nights cool airs begin
to lick the luminous edges
of our skin.

When the bough bends
The apple will fall
Baby knows nothing
Demon knows all.

Draw up the voluptously
crumpled sheet.
In rose dark silence
gentle tongues repeat
The body's triumph
through it's grand eclipse.
I feel your pulse beat
through my finger tips.

Baby's a rocker
lost on the shore
Demon's a mocker
Baby's a whore

World of the happy,
innocent and whole.
the body's
the best picture
of the soul
couched
like an animal
in savage grace
Ghost after ghost
obscures your sleeping face

My baby's like
a bird of day
that flutters
from my side,
My baby's like
an empty beach
That's ravished
by the tide.

So fair are you
my bonny lass,
so sick and strange am I.
That I must lie
with all your loves
and suck your sweetness dry.

And drink your juices dry,
my dear, and find you
grain by grain
and build your body
bone by bone
and flesh those bones again

With flesh from
all your loves, my love,
With tides & seasons stream,
Until you wake by candlelight
from your midsummer dream,

And like some
gentle creature meet
The huntsman's
murderous eye,
and know you never
shall escape
however fast you fly.

Unhoused I'll shout
my drunken songs
and through the streets I'll go
compelling all I meet to toast
The bride they do not know.

Till all your tears
are dry, my love,
and your ghosts
fade in the sun
Be sure I'll have your heart,
my love, when all
your loving's done.

-- Gwen Harwood.
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Name: amber is the color of your energy, whoa-oh ..
(my immediate and sincere apologies to patrick, should he read this) :-)

Birthday: march, please feel free to send beer, climbing gear, or other trinkets of joy.

Birthplace: a hospital

Current Location: a desk

Eye Color: blue

Hair Color: blonde

Height: 5'

Right or Left Handed: right

Your Heritage: small town texas girl - imagine every redneck joke you've ever heard

The Shoes You Wore Today: hmm, i dont think i wore shoes at all today.

Your Weakness: adventure climbing, hot guys, and good beer. if all three were combined, my poor little heart would probably fail.

Your Fears: dying before my son can take care of himself

Your Perfect Pizza: FREE !

Goals For This Year: staying out of the ER

Your Most Overused Phrase: neat-o, effin, cool, or rad

Thoughts First Waking Up: .. depends on where i'm waking up ..

Your Best Physical Feature: uhhh, the mixture of mud and lint between my toes?

Your Bedtime: whenever i finally run outta energy

Your Most Missed Memory: cant say that i 'miss' any memories; they're still lingering somewhere back there.

Pepsi or Coke: dr pepper

McDonalds or Burger King: southern sun (micropub) - best burgers and beer on the planet

Single or Group Dates: dates? hahahaha ... sorry, i dont date for the sake of dating.

Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: whatever's cheapest at King Stoopids

Chocolate or Vanilla: .. depends on what it's being used for ..

Cappuccino or Coffee: usually coffee, but i'll take a cappunccino if i'm feelin saucy

Do you Smoke: guilt-stricken yes,

Do you Swear: oh, hell yeah. shit, sorry 'bout that.

Do you Sing: my friends and family have insisted that i stop

Do you Shower Daily: ... only if you're lucky ...

Have you Been in Love: yes, it was WONDERFUL. i'd like to be there again someday.

Want to go to College? yep, studying for the LSAT, baby

Do you want to get Married: not inspired at present. but i suspect that i'll change my mind when i meet 'him'

Do you belive in yourself: a former love once told me that i'm a self-absorbed egomaniac .. so, yeah, i guess so

Do you get Motion Sickness: is alcohol involved?

Think you're Attractive? .. beauty is in the eye of the beer holder ..

Are you a Health Freak: i smoke, drink, cuss, and eat red meat - what do you think?

Get along with your parents? my mom is amongst my best friends

Do you like Thunderstorms: ab-sol-lute-ly LOVE THEM .. well, unless i'm dodging lightening strikes, then it sucks until it's over, then it was fun and becomes part of the 'no shit, there i was' repertoire.

Do you play an Instrument: again, friends and family have insisted that i stop

In the past month ..
have you drank alcohol: drinking right now

have you smoked: about 10 minutes ago

have you been on drugs: does vitamin i count?

been on a date: does camping count?

gone to a Mall: god no. i avoid those temples of evil. *hiss*

eaten a box of Oreos: wow, i havent had oreos in FOREVER

eaten Sushi: yep.

been on Stage: ... only in my mind ...

have you been Dumped: uh, it's hard to get dumped when you're not dating in the first place.

gone Skinny Dipping: does my bathtub count?

have you Stolen Anything: my roomie's beer. heh.

Ever been Drunk: uh, please refer to the previous question and make some inferences from there.

Ever been called a Tease: i plead the fifth

Ever been Beaten up: in just about every way possible.

Ever Shoplifted: nope

How do you want to Die: my therapist has advised me to stop worrying about things that i cannot control. heh.

Country you most want to visit: several countries in south america and central asia

In a Guy ..

Favourite Eye Color: eyes are a must.

Favourite Hair Color: hair is optional, sometimes.

Short or Long Hair: well-groomed?

Height: taller than me. heh.

Weight: heavier than me, haha.

Best Clothing Style: if he's hot, then i'd have to say 'less is more'

Number of Drugs I have taken: prescribed, illicit, or over the counter?

Number of CDs I own: not many - yay for having cool friends and internet radio.

Number of Piercings: three in my ears, and one in my navel - but i rarely wear jewelry in them anymore.

Number of Tattoos: one, will have a second once i have the dinero to fund it, and two more when i decide what the hell i want

Number of things in my Past I Regret: regret? why waste precious time worrying about water that's under the bridge