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9:58 p.m. : 2002-08-10
(tom waits lyrics)
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you
And from a window across the lawn I watched you undress
Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair
That rose in strangled ebony curls
Moving in a yellow bedroom light
The air is wet with sound
The faraway yelping of a wounded dog
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
A wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air
I hear your champagne laugh
You wear two lavender orchids
One in your hair and one on your hip
A string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk
Circling the lake with a slowly dipping halo
And I hear a banjo tango
And you dance into the shadow of a black poplar tree
And I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
I watched you as you disappeared
sometimes…you are inside a song I hear. It seems random…but somehow screams your name into my ears. Makes me want to be seen this way by your eyes… I would wish you were watching me unknown to me when thoughts of you come greet me with the moon.…this song…you…my muse… I would want to be…
stare naked
standing still against my heart beating fast
my hands meeting flesh
sliding across my rounded landscaped hips
i would lick your name across
my empty mouth
a slow wicked smile would
curve its way into my evening hair
slow hands would slide my lace
to the floor
i’d stop and feel the summer night
its air for fingers caressing my damp skin
silently moving slow motion
i would walk towards the window
raising my arms
to embrace the light
allowing the moon
to stare naked
at all my love for you
to you…from me
