"People change and forget to tell each other."
                 -Lillian Hellman

You're the Damn Prickliest Man

You're the damn prickliest man I've ever loved.
I haven't got you straight yet.
Who are you?

Just when I think I get it,
think I see what I am to you,
what you are to me,
the world shifts under my feet again.

There's no comfort here, no tenderness.
Just an excess of love
with no place to go.

 
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©2002 Ellen Vanderslice
15 November 2002
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