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Return to Marrakech (Free verse) by Caducus
I take my seven days
paint each of them yellow,
but you take Monday
and make it a watercolour
of blue and weeping.
Leaving you and your Daddy's shell
would be like Moon leaving tide.
Fish images,
flapping for breath,
a surface of beauty
yet something is wrong
Venus is hidden
behind a girl.
Touching me
with ten tombstones.
Waking the dead in me
yet putting you to sleep,
you love me like a dog
we need each other.
My seven days of your one.
You call me Daddy when I hold you,
forcing my hands where Devils played
until we met in the Spring of 56
and they slept until your fall of 95.
Yasmine candles,
made her remember Marrakech,
and through their burning
she remembered us,
how we were,
things we said,
and that one night in eight years
she painted my friday yellow
and Devils and Daddy's slept
till Saturdays watercolour
sailed through my canvass of wrinkles.
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