poetry, dreams, and the body » dance http://rickbelden.com/blog a blog by Rick Belden, author of Iron Man Family Outing Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:18:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ three green monks http://rickbelden.com/blog/2010/05/28/three-green-monks/ http://rickbelden.com/blog/2010/05/28/three-green-monks/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 18:36:39 +0000 Rick http://rickbelden.com/blog/?p=876 three green monks
dancing in the grass
one starts to squawk
when another tries to pass
one gets a startle
and they all fly away
three green monks
hard at play.

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why not both
she knows tears + I know anger
together we almost made a whole person for a while
fused at the wound.

but our little house of lies isn’t big enough to hold us now
she won’t stand up for herself + I can’t stand up
for both of us at the same time anymore
so we ride the broken lover’s seesaw of staying + leaving
one foot in + one foot out
we dance in the kitchen like unloved children + wait
for fulfillment of old pain’s expectations.

so anxious to leave
so anxious to be left
so anxious to be right
so anxious to be hurt
so anxious to be disappointed
so anxious to be alone again.

when this whole thing started
I wanted us to be immersed in each other
I wanted us to fix each other
I thought that was what people were supposed to do
I don’t want that anymore
I don’t need that anymore
but I still don’t know
how to love someone I don’t want to fix.

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salmon bone smile
hairy garbage cannibal
horny bugeye hustle.

plastic shoe bag
pup tent luv hump
monkey wiggle freeze-out
smoking hat funk.

animal hammer dance
virgin forest loner
happy insect yearbook
angry bow tie boner.

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