Thursday, 8 February 2018

Sorted Desire

How do we sort desire? 
This one is proper, the other, shallow.
This goes into the blue box of pursuit, 
that one into the red one of next week, 
these go into the pale pink box of never go there
There must be rooms full of unfulfilled desires 
of various women somewhere  
on our planet 
breathing in nicotine fumes of 
Memories soaked in regret
and boatfuls of children’s winged desires
Of spaceman spiffs atop Attenborough’s 
Predator cats deep inside a sphinx’s hollow
Men must have their trains and buses full too
Things that they once desired, withered 
In the vacuousness of repition and
Cookie cut travel maps, hotels, Malls, 
Even the ocean Carps and northern lights
Not as enticing as those travel photographs 
And what happened to tiny desires fulfilled?
A kiss from behind, feet lifted off the ground 
In faint, dizzy aftermath of slow lovemaking
Do they then fall off the face of earth and float 
Around like stars, expanding into nothingness 
Or do they float on unseen waves captured 
Aeons later by men in search of desire?

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