If I hung myself out to dry would you cut me down?
Would you wonder like a scientist at the paper thin fragility of deoxygenated skin?
How would you lower me with dignity so important to an ugly girl
More so than to a woman of beauty and slenderness,
Yet not taking the risk of inhibiting the task in hand?
Would you breathe all the while?
Would it scare you or would you be your taciturn self?
How long would it take do you think
For me to expire for you to perspire?
All the questions that a planner
Someone who likes to know what’s happening
Who doesn’t leave a thing to chance although
Spontaneity and surprises are so important and such talismans
Of romance and meaning that to imagine planning such a thing
That would deprive me of Christmas and birthdays and other random
Meaningless occasions when a present would make me smile like a child
And very occasionally jump up and down
Seems unworldly, improbably, importune.
But you’ve known how lonely this existence is.
You’ve walked away so many times that you can’t be surprised
You can’t be threatened any more
And must just be waiting for the fruit to fall, no, just hang from the rafter tree.
You’re just marking time staying with me.
A welcome harvest, eventually, it would seem.
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