What if what someone
finds you attractive for
isn’t the thing that
you want them to
what if the thing
that you know to
be the best you
is never even seen
what do you do
I have found myself
bobbing in an ocean
of suitors immersed in
their affections batting away
the paws and nibbles
wishing that just one
would take a bite
from the place where
I know I’ll bleed
but rather they bump
against the one place
where what they think
is flesh is bone
sometimes I think that
I will simply drown
rather than being eaten
to live again a
part of someone else
Category: Dating
IceFishing
I sometimes think that
dating is a lot
like ice fishing you
get all bundled up
stagger out onto ice
cut a hole drop
a line and wait
and wait and wait
Then comes a nibble
then comes a bite
up the line goes
and nothing but a
bare hook so off
you go having done
nothing but feed the
fishes it’s always been
about the fishes and
never ever about you
OneThingOnly
I am one thing
one continuous fiber one
continuous feeling that runs
sometimes flows sometimes tumbles
but nonetheless always returns
and always remains and
never ever goes away
I am one thing
just one little thread
that meanders around down
and through up and
around twisting and turning
and then back and
ending where it began
I am one thing
I’ve only ever been
but this one thing
though others have wanted
just that thing or
the other thing for
moments or for hours
or for years but
I am one thing
it’s all I’ve been
just that one thing
PotatoSalad
I ache I yearn
but I also remember
and maybe it’s too
soon because the remembering
still casts long shadows
on what I desire
It’s like that time
that I craved potato
salad so much so
that I ate bowl
after bowl type after
type helping after helping
And now I can’t
stand even looking at
potato salad without wretching
So when I look
at you I don’t
see you I’m sorry
but I don’t all
I still see is
potato salad just more
and more potato salad
ItUs
And it’s funny when
I think about us
I don’t think about
it it just happened
and continues to happen
and when it happens
enough then that it
becomes us an expression
of us the meaning
of us so it
is what we desired
and us is what
we intimately eventually came
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 