Or... with Kate
driving across the river
to a bar
in Kansas City
that is.... Kansas City, Kansas
rather than.... Kansas City, Missouri
Where we are
divided city
AND... the Clint Eastwood clone
who repeats
and repeats
do you have I.D.?
do you have I.D.?
like it.... stood for interminable disease
or Id
.... or something
and the barman
who winks
and says 'Is Kate your mother?'
when he..... knows very well
she is not
She laughs
'He just called you a motherfucker'
I am unconvinced
that he.... could make up
such a pun
I could
cry in my beer
but I do not
Kate kisses me anyway
OR...... I blow smoke rings at Rozgay
'I like autumn because everything dies.'
Christ!!
He said that in Germany
One Sunday
In the park
My breath making white stabs in the air
See...your poetry.... he says
peering over my shoulder
white stabs in the air
too poetic
What does it MEAN?
It means
(a) my breath is hotter than air
OR ...... (b) I can't blow smoke rings...
Kate thumps the juke box
in your ear
in your ear
the barman winces
I laugh
I demand a double bourbon
with a maraschino cherry
the barman laughs
the clone whistles
Kate & I
rock & roll
We go outside
I hate this part
The Wind Shield Index
is 20 degrees below zero
I slide the Mustang sideways
across the carpark
snow chains gravelling the ice
OR... re-crossing the river
I think
Kate will say I don't think we're in Kansas
anymore
and Kate says
'i don't think we're in Kansas anymore'
I say we should go to Chicago.... now.