Friday, May 31, 2013

The Exuberant Remoteness of May 31st


Until your rococo hair is more assured today
Of its distinction it drowses on your head
As if it never brooded over a tidy childhood
And hasn’t your wild hair fallen down
At a New Year’s Eve dance more than once
And didn’t it move all my fingers to wag
Like tongues? Didn’t it drive at least one 
Fool to suicide? Your hair knows so much 
About things it surely knows presence is better
Than absence for those who love excess
O now all this music tumbles madly about
Our ears and you say can't you see how the last
Day of May taunts our hearts and oppresses us
With such effulgent faun-colored hair?

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