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Lament (Free verse) by Caducus
Our love is owned by the sky
yours has fifty stars
bowing to me on a limp flag
That I wish upon as you kiss me goodbye.
I watch her in a sea of brake lights
disappearing from my life again
their is no poetry being lived anymore
it died on exit thirty three.
My lips have not dried yet from her last kiss
their were about ten of them
but we always fought goodbyes
until tannoys cut the swathe of our lips.
Soon Spring will die in October
and I'll go and weep with trees
carving your name as an epitaph
where we fell with apple blossom
hiding from Gods eye
as aeroplanes left scars
to remind us both of sky.
God has blessed America
and I have cursed God
for I am a son of England
ill educated and too limited
to be Americas orphan.
What will become of us?
Is our love the envy of God?
It seems to me
that dreams to me
lay in rubber stamps in consulates
for true love needs a visa
issued by a tin man
on a yellow brick road to nowhere.
Can you choose whom you love?
can you choose where they live?
English love needs a degree for America
and all I have is never enough,
so I will be reminded forever
that I was just a curious accent
who if married could work at Walmart
with the 'little people' singing Ku Ku Kuracha.
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