Dark Poetry Prose Poetry March 12, 2003 Dark Poetic Prose

3-12-03 wednesday 8pm brick NJ

sex and magic -
if you can believe that;
it's what is was,
what it used to be until
we found ourselves again;

sex and magic -
so utterly dramatic
and yet not so;
a whisper of touch
against a scream of flesh;
a dewdrop of friendship
on the thorn of love;

play and promise -
the future and the past
dancing together as if
they've been married
their whole lives -
as if they really believe
in themselves and in us,
as if they really feel
what we still covet;

one night or a hundred -
it's irrelevant;
one life or none -
i couldn't tell you
what would be different except -
except that i'd miss you,
even if i'd never known you,
even if i'd never had the chance to,
i'd still miss you nevertheless;

sex and magic -
is how i remember us
when life would like to forget;
sex and magic
is what i call it when
love falls just short of;
sex and magic
in the stoney corridors of
a graveyard heart,
sex and magic
is what i call it
when and if i call it at all.