the bath
what started the whole silly thing off was me carving
a penis shaped banana with my teeth
and in humorous fashion we both agreed
that i was some sort of pervert
but the banana was two fold
it led to conversation of my boredom in this prairie town
which led to silly arguments on both our parts
with the peace coming only after lengthy apologies
and attempts at sleep
and in that grey daydream that comes before sleep
a tornado of evil swept over me in volcanic eruptive fashion
fantasies of being bound together for life by suicide in unison
and i had the image of the two of us naked
in a hot tub
slashing each others wrists and eating grapes and drinking wine
and slowly falling into eternal sleep in each others arms
in the heat of the bath
the bright red swirls like some bizarre sort of dessert
woke me from my dream
and sweating the cold sweat a hungry man can sweat
stumbling into the bathroom i found my lover preparing a bath
she asked me to get the wine
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