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Rod 4/16/04 Photo by Billy Iz
A Thought for Today
Make up with your roommate before the
weekend ends.
FROM the¨BOOKS
Four Poems from In Someone’s Shadow
July 11
If you gave me children
one or ten,
I could not love you more.
Less maybe.
For I have only love enough for you.
It takes the middle and both ends
of all the love I’ve got
to keep you safe.
Children, then,
and birds and trees
and summer afternoons
will have to be my good friends only.
For I’m as selfish with my love
as you are with your body
in the morning.
July 12
Don’t sit that way.
Your tears fall on your breasts
like raindrops on the window ledge
and I’m reduced to nothing
but a trouble-maker
in a Barcelona chair.
If I want tears
I’ll wind the phonograph
and let it do my crying for me.
Women use their tears like poison darts.
We are not at war with love.
If I’ve been drafted once again,
I’ll pack a bag for Canada.
July 15
I have no journeys
that I care to make just now
unless it’s to the middle of the bed
(and then I’d own it all).
Where were you last night / never mind.
The room is warmer now.
-from “In Someone’s Shadow,” 1968
Join me on Monday for another edition of Ask Rod. Sleep warm.
7/10/04 3:25 AM PDST
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