MARGINALIA
footnotes
imitations
&limitations
continuously
fashioned
differences
generalisations
classified
in the
particular
the
subjective
ceased
intent
on
definition
cornered
contained
&
finally
desired
They texted on backlit marginalia,
phones dimming as the night grew older.
After a squabble, they tested their feelings.
“I am still the same woman,” she wrote,
mentioning all her good points.
He, drowsy and hung over,
“I have a list.”
He had listed the many reasons
she was great to be with -
quoted those.
“Thank you,” she said preening.
“I haven’t changed, you have!”
He added a few cons to a new list
he had secretly been compiling,
then some more.
The list grew longer.
“I’ve made another list.” He told her.
She took this as a good sign.
“Yes, go on…”
‘A change would be good’, he thought,
but wrote:
“I love you just the way you are.”
After the make-up chat,
he downloaded an adult video.
They messaged on backlit marginalia,
phones dimming as the night grew older.
After the fight, they pondered each other,
tested their feelings.
“I am still the same woman” She wrote.
He, drowsy and hung over -
“I have a list.”
He had listed the many reasons
she was so great to be with.
He mentioned those reasons to her.
“Thank you,” she said preening.
I haven’t changed, you have!”
He added some negative cons to his list,
then some more.
The list grew longer.
“I’ve made another list.” He told her.
She took this as a good sign.
“Yes, go on…”
A change would be good. He thought
but wrote:
“I love you just the way you are.”
Then he tore up the second list
and turned on a p..n video.
BEWICK
unhampered
unclouded
clear precise
memoirs of the mind
hollowed out of time
in domains dissected
yellow harvests
fading foliage
leaves birds&trees
depicted
with an unusual eye
a spontaneous overflow
of feelings
exposed
the rarest
of qualities
exquisitely
executed&
engraved
BLAKE
without fluence
in infinite patience
vital& neccessary
bursting with life
yet
tender&
exhuberant
marginalia
footnotes&epigrams
imitations worthy of notice
subjective
particular
in mood & nature
a miasma
intent on definition
in visions of dells knooks & corners
of paradise
in
a pitch of poetic intensity
vivid brilliancy
mist dreaming glimmers
upon
gaudy daylight