You're a sweetheart, Shou. :)
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You're a sweetheart, Shou. :)
Waiting for Shen Li
After Shen Li and I chatted the other day she discovered that the Café was currently unable to accept credit cards. Since she had too little or no money on her she would have to go and get some which might make her late for work, I offered to pay for her. She hesitated, wondering as any woman might what I’d be expecting in return. There were no strings attached, I assured her sincerely. She questioned me about when I would be there again, thanked me and left...
Because she is Chinese
I assume she will be eager
to discharge her indebtedness.
But if only there were some other reason
why she might return.
I wait in my sandals, Bermudas
and wind-breaker. It’s a damp,
somewhat chilly day
and I’ve never been good at waiting
for a bus, a plane, the mail
or love. (Especially not for love!)
But if you’ve been waiting as long as I have,
what’s another ten, fifteen,
fifteen and a half, fifteen
minutes and forty-five, forty-six
forty-seven seconds...
Haha aaaow I like it...
What's another 15, 15.5 YEARS... we were meant to think,
until we saw that you said MINUTES
a new line LONGER...
and then we all laughed, thinking... he's lying, he's been and will be waiting longer, waiting for the repetition of your numbers.
84, 56, 694...
I'm so shi.t at waiting for a bus.
What's another 10 seconds,
VERY LONG if you're counting each second - you're extending each second,
and yourself, with no-one to meet you in each direction.
Sometimes waiting for my TV to START is painful enough...
I haven't yet counted how many kilometers I am away from my non-Lover in another country.
Jeezus Christ, this is fun.
<3 enjoy ya day
The city hums today,
but off-key, somewhat distracted,
as if one of its most closely-guarded secrets
were about to leak out.
Love it!Quote:
Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
Two kids
arm in arm
sipping kisses
from each other’s lips.
Beautiful! Just simple poetry capturing a moment as a camera does! :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
Delightful! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
Mmmm....sipping kisses. Cdn says it all...delightful. :D
God bless your front window! (And ALL your windows!) Perhaps you sensed what a struggle it was not to add another word or two of interpretation or commentary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
She DOES have a way with words, that Cdnreader, doesn't she? And her phrasing!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ampoule
Yes, she does, but it was YOUR 'sipping kisses' that really got to me. And I am taking 'kids' to mean young adults??Quote:
Originally Posted by PrinceMyshkin
Hardly adults, I would say. I judge them to have been, tops, about 16.Quote:
Originally Posted by ampoule
16 on a good day!!
Like me. :D
A late-twentyish woman walks by
on bare shapely legs
the length of many an entire
smaller woman, and before
I’ve had my fill of looking at her,
she’s two blocks over and gone!