verbava все записи автора Richard Brautigan – Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt

She tries to get things out of men
that she can't get because she's not
15% prettier.

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Romeo and Juliet

If you will die for me,
I will die for you
and our graves will
be like two lovers washing
their clothes together
in a Laundromat.
If you will bring the soap,
I will bring the bleach.

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There are so many better things for you
than to see your feelings sold
as magic lanterns to somebody whose body
casts no light.

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—2

Everybody wants to go to bed
with everybody else, they're
lined up for blocks, so I'll
go to bed with you. They won't
miss us.

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and she was the woman that I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.

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Forget love
I want to die
in your yellow
hair.

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All the secrets of past tense have just come my way,
but I still don’t know what I'm going to do
next.

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Last week, making love, you bit me.
Now the blue and dark have gone
and yellow bruises grow toward pale daffodils,
then paler to become until my body
is all my own and what that ever got me.


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Beautiful, sobbing, high-geared fucking
and then to lie silently like deer tracks
in the freshly-fallen snow beside the one
you love. That’s all.

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