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In the library I was in the park

In the park I was on the beach

On the beach I was in the bookshop

In the bookshop I was having dinner

Having dinner I was making love

Making love I was settling the bill

Settling the bill I was thinking of yesterday

Yesterday I was thinking of tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be fighting the fire once more

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I have a desire to go

Someplace to be

Maybe to bathe in nostalgia

Or glow for the first time

In the immediacy of flirtation

I have many places in mind

But what of those

Of which I don't yet know

How should the search begin

What sparkle should my eye wear

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What I have

Is what I never had

What I now hold close

Is that where I didn't

Ever reach a closeness

Closer then than ever

Even without the knowing

Thus to hold tight onto

All that you gave, all

That I couldn't take away

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I once held the key

Carried it wherever I travelled

Loose, in denim jeans pocket

Close to the desires

Which desired to be unlocked

Earlier I had knocked, on 

A few doors, so many doors

Pouring out stories, and gifting

Gifts with the ease, to tease

That which becomes sacrament

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Neither in the making

Or the breaking apart

No point in raising stakes

For already it is a broken heart

Straight lines and primary colours

As if by Mondrian from the very start

No more might Piet be her brother

Beside the surging River Dart

Impeccable if not indeed precise

Serving Martini, Vermouth chilled with ice

Nothing if not respectable; a career

That careered without a single vice

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