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To the Invisible Friend The dredging decades have floated by like drifting clouds in the beckoning western sky. Hello dead friend of my distant youthful days under these erotic jacaranda blooms. It is my firm hope that you are satisfied and settled inside your deep and cozy earthen confines. We spent months hours and minutes tangled together in a passing parade of exquisite time. We ate a plethora of flailing foods together inside the old quaint cafes in busy Uptown. We talked unceasingly under whirring ceiling fans in the yellow eating breakfast rooms. You and I drove in suspended romantic time down the Harbor lanes at prying midnight. You pressed your tresses and closed your eyes upon my shoulder into the late kissing night. What has happened to your young voice and your shy waves to me from the darkened distances? We have moved away from each other in decades gone by like skiffs in a crescent watery breezeway. We have left behind a thousand inter crossings and a hundred by crossings with suspended ecstasies. So sorry that had to happen to you that morning in October when the sky hi jacked your future days. Look to the west behind these eucalyptus trees that now cast long August shadows at twilight. Look to the blue-laced north now and rest your tilted head upon my shoulder as it leans westward. Sorry you’re dead now as you sleep in your grassy bed of jealous roses and wailing wisteria. Sorry I had to see your white-sheeted body on the evening news lying there amidst the tragic landscape. But now dear dead ghost whose faraway voice I can still hear even now from talks in the old evenings. Did we not take long strolls on old cracked sidewalks under a curious canopy of jacaranda blooms? Did we not seek and grasp great silver moments in the green-drenched darkness of hot skin and tears? You and I know of those secret dances with the music turned down low in the swallowing darkness. You and I remember the long floating ride down the deserted boulevard at prowling midnight. We were irresistibly falling in love with the idea that this sensual drama in the dark would never end. Goodbye dear dead friend of my distant youthful days under these erotic jacaranda blooms. It is my firm and final hope that we’ll meet again outside your deep and cozy earthen confines.
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