Before you arrived or left

 

 

Well I thought I could see you

right here and right now

but nothing is here in front of me

except the screen unless

I bring in the sky – blue-

and along with that how about some stretch of beach

and don’t forget the hot dog vendors

and the steel bands which i carefully removed

from a Donald Fagen song

and of course the women, not necessarily in white

and not women as in plural

but one woman and we’ll get back to her,

get back to you in just a second

because you see in these things

we must have something other than a sun

and a sky and water even though

those are three of the main elements

that make up the world: water, fire and earth

not be to be confused with the seventies band

of almost the same name even though

we mentioned music a few sentences before this one.

We have to bring in something peculiar

and sudden perhaps a skyscraper

or a freeway that leads to some place

beyond the horizon where you happen

to be and the direction in which you are

always heading out into the horizon

which is constantly fleeting

like the oasis in the middle of the road

that you see before you while you are driving

like the mirage that is in the imagination

the vision the desert vagabond sees before him

with the cooling tents, the camels,

the tambourine necklaces on the women

and the water the water which is as cool

as the blue sky and invisible like

the air above the earth which you breath out

and I inhale delicately –

thirsty for the air on the other side of the horizon

 

 

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