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      AFTER A DAY WE STAY IN BED UNTIL
      THE SUN IS CLOSE TO SETTING
      
      He drives home
      thru the black trees
      with a poem
      about me that will
      make him famous
      starting in his
      fingers.  He wishes 
      the wheel was his
      Olympia typewriter.
      He needs to get my
      hair where he can
      touch it on the long
      drive thru the pine
      trees, my musk still
      drenching the car.
      I want to read
      this poem almost as 
      much, dazed, the
      night's performance
      has sucked me flat
      and pale as an empty
      sheet of non erasable
      bond, has pulled
      all color, all the
      wet moist verbs
      out the way he took
      the stories I told
      and made them in
      to his own surreal 
      dreams.  Even my
      leaves and branches
      became the green
      arms of a child.
      My mouth is dry, I
      need to have his
      poem where my clove
      nipples press into his
      blue striped cotton
      smelling of sun and
      wind in the pine
      trees, a mirror that
      will reflect my dark
      eyes.  I need this as
      much as he needs
      to invent me to
      become himself.