A love in verse

My 3 Girls

1998-02-13
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They go, in sun and wind, past standing cars

I watch their backs whom I love so

Smart and striding upright and purposeful;

The corner by the battered shop is reached

They carry each an enormous part

Of what is best on earth for me. 

My sunny women, my glorious girls, and you

My darling, most principal among the fair

Thanks for yourself and our most gorgeous daughters.

The corner turned, they’ve gone and I remain 

Most grateful to heaven. 

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Antibodies

I hurt my heart in hurting you

It goes both ways I guess

Two hearts are wounded but it’s true...

The World Must Yield

You say back to me, at the window, 

Fruitlessly breathing out the fag

Whose smoke blew back into the room...